In the 1890 's and for some time thereafter , Hartford was known as the richest city in the United States , so wealthy that Mark Twain , who rented a pew but was not a member of the Asylum Hill Congregational Church , would tease his good friend , the Rev. Joseph Twichell by calling his church '' the Church of the Holy Speculators , '' according to Alfred Bigelow Paine who was Twain 's biographer .
Joseph Twichell /people/deceased_person/place_of_death Hartford
Mark Twain /people/person/place_lived Hartford
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Mark Twain
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