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Margaret Carnegie Miller (March 30, 1897 – April 11, 1990) was the only child of industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and Louise Whitfield, and heiress to the Carnegie fortune. [1] [2] A resident of Manhattan, New York City, from 1934 to 1973, Miller was a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, a grant-making foundation ...
Andrew Carnegie was born to Margaret (Morrison) Carnegie and William Carnegie in Dunfermline, Scotland, [9] in a typical weaver's cottage with only one main room. It consisted of half the ground floor, which was shared with the neighboring weaver's family. [ 10 ]
[135] [136] Carnegie had been happy with the 51st Street house, which had been a wedding gift for Louise, and their daughter Margaret was born there in 1897. [134] After Margaret was born, Carnegie asked painter Howard Russell Butler to devise plans for a renovation of the 51st Street house. Louise, who wanted to build a completely new house ...
Andrew Carnegie Whitfield: 28 New York City, New York, U.S. Whitfield, the nephew of wealthy steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, mysteriously disappeared shortly after he departed from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York on the morning of 17 April 1938. [85] 8 May 1938 Marjorie West: 4 McKean County, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Margaret Morrison Street runs through the west end of the campus. The Margaret Morrison Apartments [4] and the Margaret Morrison Courtyard [5] are located along the street. Margaret Morrison Carnegie Hall serves as the headquarters of the Carnegie Mellon School of Design and a principal facility of the Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts. In ...
Joseph A. Shakspeare, Mayor of New Orleans at the time of the March 14, 1891 lynchings; Eric Skrmetta, attorney from Metairie, Louisiana; Republican member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission for District 1; Jefferson B. Snyder, lived in New Orleans 1893–1897; later district attorney in three delta parishes in northeast Louisiana 1904 ...
At the age of 23, Whitfield met Andrew Carnegie, himself aged 45, through her father. [1] On April 22, 1887, Whitfield (now 30) married Carnegie (51) at her family's home in New York City in a private ceremony officiated by a pastor from the Church of the Divine Paternity, a Universalist church to which the Whitfields belonged. [2]
Lucy Carnegie Ricketson was a granddaughter of Thomas M. Carnegie, brother and business partner of the steel magnate and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.She was born in New York City to Oliver Garrison Ricketson and Margaret Coleman Ricketson (née Carnegie), and moved with her parents when she was three years old to Cumberland Island, [3] located off the southern coast of Georgia, directly ...