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Institutional and Private LibrariesFauntleroy Home Library%u2014%u2014New Harmony, IndianaErected c. 1815-1820 by the Harmonists. In 1841, the home was sold to Robert Henry Fauntleroy.Today it is an Indiana Historic Site.Born in Virginia in 1806, Robert Henry Fauntleroy was orphaned at the age of 13. Convinced that slavery was immoral, he moved to New Harmony, Indiana in 1827. Once settled, he married Jane Dale Owen, one of the five children of social reformer Robert Owen, who had purchased the town in 1825. Their New Harmony residence (which he acquired from Oliver Evans, Jr., in 1840) is now known as the Old Fauntleroy Home. It is visited by hundreds tourists each year. Fauntleroy was an engineer and learned to be an expert in mechanical drawing. He was awarded patents for an improvement in gun-locks, and another for something called a %u201cfly-drive%u201d for the use of the sick in summer. While employed as an engineer by the State of Indiana, he invented an Elliptograph, a drawing of which is preserved in the New Harmony Workingmen%u2019s Institute.Beginning in 1846, Fauntleroy worked for the U. S. Coast Survey along the Gulf of Mexico, where he died of Cholera in December of 1849. His body was returned to New Harmony for burial. His home is now open to the public and is often used as a picturesque setting for weddings and other events.