ANDREW CARNEGIE born Nov. 25, 1835; died Aug. 11, 1919
Title: History of Pittsburgh and environs, from prehistoric days to the beginning of the American revolution Vol. 3 / By George Thornton Fleming.
Author: Fleming, George Thornton, 1855-1928.
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ANDREW CARNEGIE, PG. 797
...ANDREW CARNEGIE was born in Dumferline, Fife, near Edinburgh, Scotland, Nov. 25, 1835, son of WILLIAM and MARGARET (MORRISON) CARNEGIE.His father was a weaver of linen goods...In 1848, finding his occupation gone, MR. and MRS. CARNEGIE decided for the sake of their two boys to emigrate to the U. S.The father did not live to see the prosperity of his son; his mother, however, did.The family settled in Pittsburgh (North Side), where the lad ANDREW obtained work in a cotton mill as bobbin boy at a salary of one dollar and twenty cents per week, which amount was added to the general family fund.Through the kindness of Colonel Anderson, who made a practice of loaning books to boys and working men, he was able to supplement the education received at Dumferline with a course of good reading.Colonel Anderson also “builded better than he knew,” for there was born in the lad’s brain, as he realized the good he derived from the Colonel’s kindness, a resolve that has resulted in the thousands of “Carnegie Libraries” all over the United States, Canada and Great Britain.
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MR. CARNEGIE married, in 1887, LOUISE WHITEFIELD.Their only child, MARGARET, was born in 1897.Their time was divided between a magnificent estate in Scotland, Skibo Castle, and a palatial residence on Fifth Ave., New York...ANDREW CARNEGIE died at Shadow Brook, Lenox, Mass., Aug; 11, 1919.
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DEATH OF CARNEGIE:
CARNEGIE died on 11 August 1919 in Lenox, Massachusetts of bronchial pneumonia.He was buried at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in North Tarrytown, New York.The grave site is located on the Arcadia Hebron plot of land at the corner of Summit Avenue and Dingle Road.
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