Cabet

Etienne, a French communist, born in Dijon, Jan. 2, 1788, and educated for the bar, but turned his attention to literature and politics. Cabet sent a French colony to the Red river in Texas, but the colonists who went out in 1848 found Texas anything but a Utopia. Their ill fortune did not deter Cabet from embarking at the head of a second band of colonists. On his arrival he learned that the Mormons had just been expelled from Nauvoo, III., and that their city was left deserted. The Icarians established themselves there in 1850. Cabet’s efforts, however, were not succe ful. He was finally obliged to leave Nauvoo and retire to St. Louis, where he died Nov. 9, 1856.