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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 ...
Carnegie as he appears in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.. Andrew Carnegie (English: / k ɑːr ˈ n ɛ ɡ i / kar-NEG-ee, Scots: [kɑrˈnɛːɡi]; [2] [3] [note 1] November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist.
Cassie L. Chadwick (10 October 1857 – 10 October 1907) was the most well-known pseudonym used by Canadian con artist Elizabeth Bigley, who defrauded several American banks out of millions of dollars during the late 1800s and early 1900s [5] by claiming to be an illegitimate daughter and heiress of the Scottish-American industrialist Andrew Carnegie.
A bobbin boy in Chicopee, Massachusetts, 1911. A bobbin boy was a boy who worked in a textile mill in the 18th and early 19th centuries. One example of rising from this job to great heights in America was young Andrew Carnegie, who at age 13 worked as a bobbin boy in 1848.
Louise signed a prenuptial agreement, renouncing any claims to Andrew’s fortune. In return, Andrew gave her stocks and bonds that amounted to an independent annual income of US$20,000 (equivalent to $678,222 in 2023). [1] Ten years later, in 1897, Louise gave birth to the couple's only child, Margaret Carnegie.
The Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum is a biographical museum in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, dedicated to the life of Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, "one of the great Scots of the 19th century.". [1] The museum is operated by the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust [2] and is housed in a category B listed building ...
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The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video was named in honor of nineteenth-century American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. [1] It honored the producer of the most outstanding video production for children. [ 1 ]