Robert Owen
Robert Owen Owen, aged about 50 Born (1771-05-14)14 May 1771 Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales Died 17 November 1858(1858-11-17) (aged 86) Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales Occupation Co-operator; social reformer, factory owner; inventor Spouse(s) Caroline Dale Children Jackson Dale (1799) Robert Dale (1801) William (1802) Anne Caroline (1805) Jane Dale (1805) David Dale (1807) Richard Dale (1809) Mary Dale/Owen (1810) Parents Robert Owen and Anne Williams Robert Marcus Owen (/ˈoʊən/; 14 May 1771 – 17 November 1858) was a Welsh social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement. In 1824, Owen came to America to invest the bulk of his fortune in an experimental 1,000-member colony on the banks of Indiana's Wabash River, called New Harmony. New Harmony was to be a utopian, or ideal/perfect, society.