Henry Stephen Clubb (21 June 1827 – 29 October 1921) was an English-American Bible Christian minister, activist, journalist, author, Civil War veteran, and Michigan State Senator.He emigrated to the United States in 1852, where he worked as a journalist and was involved in efforts to establish a utopian community, known as Octagon City, Kansas.Clubb's education, similar to that of many English boys of the time, was obtained from various sources, including attending evening school and studying Cobbett's Grammar and Pitman's phonography until the age of 12.[3] While working there, he learned about W. Gibson Ward, a London-based commercial traveler, who spoke of a community called the Concordium that practiced an alternative lifestyle.He initially worked as a shorthand teacher before taking on the role of secretary to James Simpson, the affluent leader of the early English vegetarian movement.The following year, he was elected president of a dietetic class at the Library Institution in Salford and was earning a living through lecturing and writing on vegetarianism across the country.This project was originally designed as a vegetarian colony, but changed its focus to promoting a highly moral society with the octagon as its basic architectural structure, as propagated by Orson Fowler.