With seven opposed pairs of sharply pointed spines on one side and seven tentacles with two-pronged tips on the other, a bulb at one end and and a tube at the other, there is no clear idea of which end is up or whether it's coming or going. It may be just a part of something even stranger. Beginning in 1854, he wrote forty volumes of verse in which he delineated his theories, a blend of transcendentalism, universalism, and Swedenborgian theology. He founded a utopian commune, The Brotherhood of the New Life , in Brocton, New York, and later moved it to California, where it eventually became the Fountain Grove Winery. History - History must be false.
History embraces a small part of reality.
Houston grew up on the frontier, and at the age of fifteen, ran off to live with the Cherokee Indians rather than clerk in a store. He served with Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812, in the campaign against the Creek Indians. In 1817, he resigned from a position as subagent managing the removal of the Cherokees to a western reserve, after an inquiry was made into charges affecting his integrity. Elected Governor of Tennessee in 1827, he married Eliza Allen in 1829, but his wife left him for reasons that have never been disclosed, and he resigned his office and went to live with the Cherokees again, where he was formally adopted into their nation. He moved to Texas, then a part of Mexico, in 1832, and entered the political life there.