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Thomas Morrison Carnegie (October 2, 1843 – October 19, 1886) was a Scottish-born American industrialist. He was the brother of steel magnate Andrew Carnegie and co
Dungeness on Cumberland Island, Georgia, is a ruined mansion that is part of a historic district that was the home of several families significant in American history.The mansion was named after a nearby sandy spit at the southern end of the island, first recorded in a land grant petition in 1765 and almost certainly named after the Dungeness headland, on the south coast of England.
His heirs sold the property to Thomas M. Carnegie and his wife Lucy, who had also acquired Dungeness. [2] All that remains of Stafford's house is a ruin known as "the Chimneys," a series of 24 hearth-and-chimney structures representing Stafford's slaves' housing, about one kilometer east of the main house.
To qualify for new funding sources, the hospital was incorporated, a board was established, and Thomas M. Carnegie was elected board president. The Sisters of Mercy and the physicians and nurses of Mercy Hospital continued to serve the Pittsburgh region through World War I , the worldwide epidemic of Spanish influenza , the Great Depression ...
Lucy Furnace was a pair of blast furnaces in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the Allegheny River in Lawrenceville.The furnaces were part of the Carnegie Steel Company, with the first furnace erected in 1871 by brothers Andrew and Thomas M. Carnegie, Andrew Kloman and Henry Phipps Jr. [1] This furnace was the first one built new by the Carnegies. [2]
Carnegie, age 16, with younger brother Thomas, c. 1851. In 1849, [23] Carnegie became a telegraph messenger boy in the Pittsburgh Office of the Ohio Telegraph Company, at $2.50 per week ($92 by 2024 inflation) [24] following the recommendation of his uncle. He was a hard worker and would memorize all of the locations of Pittsburgh's businesses ...
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 ...
Designed by Peabody and Stearns for George Lauder Carnegie, a son of Thomas M. Carnegie and named after his uncle, Scottish industrialist George Lauder, it was formally dedicated on October 6, 1898. Peabody and Stearns also designed various additions to the mansion in the several following years, probably in 1906.