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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 ...
Margaret Miller or Maggie Miller may refer to: Margaret Carnegie Miller (1897–1990), American and philanthropist; Margaret C. Miller, Canadian archaeologist; Margaret Miller (politician), Canadian politician; Margaret Stevenson Miller, (1896–1979) British lecturer and researcher; Maggie Miller (mathematician) Peggy Miller, see Tales of the ...
In 1861, Thomas N. Miller, Henry Phipps (the son of the shoemaker Margaret Carnegie did home work for), Anthony Kloman, and Andrew Kloman organized the Iron City Forge in Pittsburgh to take advantage of the booming need for iron products during the American Civil War. [27] [28] Miller subsequently bought out Anton Kloman's share.
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Louise Whitfield was born on March 7, 1857, in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City.Her parents—John D. Whitfield (died 1878), a prosperous New York City textile merchant, and Fannie Davis—descended from families who emigrated from England in the 1600s.
Carnegie lived in his New York City mansion until his death in 1919, and Louise continued to live there until her own death in 1946. In the early 1920s, the mansion was connected with 9 East 90th Street, where Margaret lived from 1920 to 1948. Following a renovation, the Columbia University School of Social Work occupied the house from 1949 to ...
Andrew Carnegie with his wife Louise Whitfield Carnegie and their daughter Margaret Carnegie Miller in 1910 Carnegie did not want to marry during his mother's lifetime, instead choosing to take care of her in her illness towards the end of her life. [ 88 ]
Catherine Murat, Princess Murat (née Catherine Daingerfield Willis). This is a non-exhaustive list of some American socialites, so called American dollar princesses, from before the Gilded Age to the end of the 20th century, who married into the European titled nobility, peerage, or royalty.