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Jane Dale Owen and her mother, Jane Blaffer Owen. Jane Dale's father/Jane Blaffer's husband was Kenneth Dale Owen, the ""great-great grandson of Robert Owen, the Welsh social reformer and owner of the celebrated textile mills in New Lanark, Scotland. Robert Owen purchased the town of New Harmony in 1825, creating a Utopian community in the hope of bringing educational, and social opportunities to every man, woman and child." (http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/02/classified/paid-notice-deaths-owen-kenneth-dale.html_)""For nearly seven decades, Jane Blaffer Owen was the driving force behind the restoration and revitalization of the town of New Harmony, Indiana."" An oil heiress from Houston, she met and married Kenneth Dale Owen, great-great-grandson of Robert Owen, founder of a communal society in New Harmony. When she visited the then dilapidated town with her husband in 1941, it was love at first sight, and the story of her life and the life of the town became intertwined." (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XNG77KO/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1).

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