Robert Owen

(1771-1858)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Owen, Robert, 1771-1858 NRA: Owen, Robert (1771-1858) Socialist and Philanthropist DNB: Owen, Robert (1771-1858), socialist and philanthropist LBT ID: RoOwen1858 VIAF ID: 29613293 LOC ID: n80037004	B/BAP: 1771-05-14 DIED: 1858-11-17
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English reformer who operated the cotton mill at New Lanark in Scotland and in 1825 founded the utopian community of New Harmony in Indiana.
CORRESPONDENCE OF Robert Owen: William Roscoe to Robert Owen of Lanark, [1814?] in The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) John Murray to Robert Owen, 9 September 1817 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)