Breed, Dana F. (1823–92), left New England in 1842 to settle in Hannibal. He worked as a store clerk until November 1849, when he opened a dry goods store with Thomas K. Collins. He did not, despite what Clemens says in “Villagers” (94), marry Letititia Richmond. In 1851 he married Elizabeth Foreman; after her death in 1874, he married Mrs. Faustina Williams. In 1890, when Clemens came to Hannibal for his mother’s funeral, Breed met him at the train station and served as a pallbearer (“New Store!” Hannibal Missouri Courier, 29 Nov 49; Holcombe, 910; Hagood and Hagood 1985, 8; “The Funeral of Mrs. Clemens,” unidentified Hannibal newspaper, 30 Oct 90, clipping in Scrapbook 20:126–27, CU-MARK).
