The activist Robert Owen died at the age of 87. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
Remembered as an architect of cooperativism and the utopian socialist movement, he established an experimental Indiana community known as New Harmony.
The youngest of seven children, he grew up in Wales and later lived and worked in Scotland and America. His marriage to Caroline Dale resulted in surviving children named Robert, William, Anne, Jane, David, Richard, and Mary.
Quotes
"You may depend upon it that they are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.
"Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.
"Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.
"All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
"Man is the creature of circumstances.