1272191 Robert Owen, 1828 (litho) by Lambdin, James Reid (1807-89); 8.75x11 cm; Free Library of Philadelphia; (add.info.: Only copy known. (Joseph Jackson) Robert Marcus Owen (1771-1858) 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.); 穢 Free Library of Philadelphia ; Print and Picture Collection - Jackson Collection of American Lithographs.