Owen, Robert Dale

S., 1801-1877. A prominent writer of New Harmony, Indiana, the son of Robert Owen, the noted Scottish socialist. He was active in political life, and was an ardent advocate of Spiritualism. Outlines of the System of Education at New Lanark; Moral Physiology; Popular Traits; Pocahontas, a drama; Hints on Public Architecture; The Wrong of Slavery and the Right of Freedom; Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World; Beyond the Breakers, a novel; Threading my Way; Debatable Land between this World and the Next. See Woollen’s Biographical Sketches of Early Indiana; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 42. Lip. P