sentences:  He had been travelling with his twenty-three-year-old son Bradford Birkbeck, as well as Judge James O. Wattles and other 'English Prairie' residents, who were interested in Owen's newly proposed utopian community at New Harmony.Morris Birkbeck's death devastated the settlement, and his sons and daughters were left at loose ends.They soon formed an Owenite society at Wanborough, but it was short-lived because they could not maintain its economic viability.