Edward Bellamy — American Author born on March 26, 1850, died on May 22, 1898

Edward Bellamy was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, a Rip Van Winkle-like tale set in the distant future of the year 2000. Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of at least 165 "Nationalist Clubs" dedicated to the propagation of Bellamy's political ideas and working to make them a practical reality... (wikipedia)

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.
If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.
I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.