Mark Twain, author of the classic american novel Huckleberry Finn, lived in an elaborate and elegant house in Farmingtown avenue, Hartford around Nook farm where he owned a telephone he never liked and invested in industrial inventions and lost a fortune in it but he left the house because her beloved daughter ,Susy, died of spinal meningitis in the house and came back only once for his friend Charles Dudley Warner's funeral.