I've been confused by this, too.

As to Frank F (or other model for Huck Finn) 
ending up as a judge out west, I've wondered if 
perhaps that was humorous rather than factual?

-Steve Hoffman

On 11/23/2011 5:25 PM, Scott Holmes wrote:
> It's seems to have become common wisdom that Huck Finn was modeled on
> one Tom Blankenship.  Yet, in Twain's autobiography (Kiskis, 1990 pg
> 191) Twain states he was actually Frank F., although the note therein
> refers back to Tom.  Who was this Frank F.?  Was he the actual son of
> Jimmy Finn?  Later in the same dictation it is Frank F that became a
> Justice of the Peace.
>
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