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[begin page 351] Ustick, Thomas Watt (b. 1801?), was a prominent St. Louis book and job printer. Orion Clemens was hired by Ustick as a typesetter about 1842, and Samuel Clemens worked in Ustick’s printing house in the summer of 1853. Ustick is mentioned in “Villagers” (105). Presumably he was the model for Underwood, the St. Louis printer mentioned in “Hellfire Hotchkiss” (113), although no evidence has been found that he was John Marshall Clemens’s (James Carpenter’s) “old and trusty friend” (St. Louis Census 1850, 416:331; James Green 1849, 129; SLC to Jane Lampton Clemens, 31 Aug 53, L1, 9, 11 n. 5).
