Sam Houston Research Paper
Sam Houston
…came from Scots-Irish descended, family of 9 siblings, born on March 2, 1793. His family were mbrs of the slaveholding gentry of western Virginia. He came from Rock Bridge County in Virginia where his family owned a Timber Ridge Plantation.
…his dad, John Houston, served in the revolution as captain in the Daniel Morgan Rifle Brigade. He enjoyed military life and remained in the Virginia Militia after the war serving as a brigade inspector and attaining the rank of major in 1803. In 1806 he sold the plantation to pay debt and bought 419 acres in eastern Tennessee to make a new beginning for his family but grew sick and died in 1806. His wife, Elizabeth Paxton Houston and kids had to move southwest to Maryville, Tennessee.
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4 (He stayed long enough to get into trouble by demonstrating a weakness for alcohol that eventually went beyond youthful lacking of restraint or the general fondness for liquor on the American frontier. In September 1810, the Maryville militia held a muster, accompanied as usual by tapping kegs of beer and barrels of whiskey. Houston and one of his friends got drunk and decided to beat a drum outside the courthouse window while the Blount County Court was in session. That bit of fun earned him a $5 fine for “disorderly, riotously, wantonly …annoying the court with noise of a drum.”
…pg. 5 _ Sam Houston became a teacher. When the session ended in November, he had earned enough to pay his debts and found that he thoroughly enjoyed teaching. Later as a US senator he described how, while instructing his students with a sourwood stick pointer as a symbol of “ornament and authority,” he “experienced a higher feeling of dignity and self-satisfaction than from any office or honor which I have since held.” Sam Houston enjoyed being in command.
…pg 6 (At 20yrs old, Sam Houston enlisted to the United States Army on March 24, 1813 as a private rather than seeking a commission worthy of Samuel Houston’s son. Sam replied that honor could be served in the ranks as well as with a commission. “You don’t know me now,” he said, “but you shall hear of me.”)
…Sam Houston, though without proper education, was a quick learner. Pg 4 (Sam quickly learned their language and participated in their games, hunts, and
…came from Scots-Irish descended, family of 9 siblings, born on March 2, 1793. His family were mbrs of the slaveholding gentry of western Virginia. He came from Rock Bridge County in Virginia where his family owned a Timber Ridge Plantation.
…his dad, John Houston, served in the revolution as captain in the Daniel Morgan Rifle Brigade. He enjoyed military life and remained in the Virginia Militia after the war serving as a brigade inspector and attaining the rank of major in 1803. In 1806 he sold the plantation to pay debt and bought 419 acres in eastern Tennessee to make a new beginning for his family but grew sick and died in 1806. His wife, Elizabeth Paxton Houston and kids had to move southwest to Maryville, Tennessee.
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4 (He stayed long enough to get into trouble by demonstrating a weakness for alcohol that eventually went beyond youthful lacking of restraint or the general fondness for liquor on the American frontier. In September 1810, the Maryville militia held a muster, accompanied as usual by tapping kegs of beer and barrels of whiskey. Houston and one of his friends got drunk and decided to beat a drum outside the courthouse window while the Blount County Court was in session. That bit of fun earned him a $5 fine for “disorderly, riotously, wantonly …annoying the court with noise of a drum.”
…pg. 5 _ Sam Houston became a teacher. When the session ended in November, he had earned enough to pay his debts and found that he thoroughly enjoyed teaching. Later as a US senator he described how, while instructing his students with a sourwood stick pointer as a symbol of “ornament and authority,” he “experienced a higher feeling of dignity and self-satisfaction than from any office or honor which I have since held.” Sam Houston enjoyed being in command.
…pg 6 (At 20yrs old, Sam Houston enlisted to the United States Army on March 24, 1813 as a private rather than seeking a commission worthy of Samuel Houston’s son. Sam replied that honor could be served in the ranks as well as with a commission. “You don’t know me now,” he said, “but you shall hear of me.”)
…Sam Houston, though without proper education, was a quick learner. Pg 4 (Sam quickly learned their language and participated in their games, hunts, and