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19 unusual facts about Andrew Carnegie


Carnegie Range

It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Andrew Carnegie, American industrialist of Scottish birth who established numerous foundations and endowments for education, research, and social advancement, including the provision of public libraries in the United States, Great Britain, and other English speaking countries.

Carnegie, Oklahoma

Carnegie was named after the famous Scottish American philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie.

Charles Spearman

A record of Spearman's views on g (and also those of Godfrey Thomson and Edward Thorndike) was made in the course of the Carnegie-sponsored International Examinations Inquiry Meetings.

Dublin City Public Libraries and Archive

The philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) funded the building of four Carnegie Libraries in the Dublin City Public Libraries branch network, Dublin City Library and Archive, Pearse Street; Rathmines Library (terracotta by the famous Gibbs and Canning of Tamworth, Staffordshire); Pembroke Library and Charleville Mall Library.

Feltonville, Philadelphia

Completed in 1930, this branch has the distinction of being the last Carnegie library built with funds provided by the noted philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

Former Presidents Act

Andrew Carnegie offered to endow a US$25,000 annual pension for former Chief Executives in 1912, but congressmen questioned the propriety of such a private pension.

Fresno County Library System

The Fresno County Public Library was founded in 1910 and housed at that time in the Fresno City Library building, which had been constructed in 1904 with a $30,000 donation from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

George W. Atherton

He supported the expansion of the library, which in 1899 benefited from a gift from Andrew Carnegie after the general assembly refused to provide the necessary funding.

John Burns

In 1919 he was left an annuity of £1000 by Andrew Carnegie which left him financially independent and he spent the rest of his life devoted to his interests in books, London history and cricket.

Killorglin

The town hall is held to have been built with the help of Andrew Carnegie.

Meridian Museum of Art

Israel Marks, who helped operate the Marks-Rothenberg Department Store next door to the Grand Opera House, was an acquaintance of philanthropist Andrew Carnegie from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Mount Forest, Ontario

Mount Forest's library was completed in 1913 with a grant of $10,000 from well-known philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

Nathan L. Miller

Eventually he moved to corporate law and his rise in politics was strongly helped by his relationship with Andrew Carnegie and the United States Steel Corporation.

Pax Americana

Those who favored traditional policies of avoiding foreign entanglements included labor leader Samuel Gompers and steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie.

Shadow Brook Farm Historic District

Andrew Carnegie acquired Shadowbrook in 1917 and died there in 1919.

Sheridan, Indiana

The town applied to Andrew Carnegie for funds to build a library, a structure completed in 1912.

St. Andrew's, Blackrock

The church organ was installed in 1912 with half of the money donated by Andrew Carnegie (a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, entrepreneur and a major philanthropist).

Steel Bank Common Lisp

The name "Steel Bank Common Lisp" is a reference to Carnegie Mellon University Common Lisp from which SBCL forked: Andrew Carnegie made his fortune in the steel industry and Andrew Mellon was a successful banker.

Tacony, Philadelphia

The land was a gift of the Disston Family, and the building was a gift of Andrew Carnegie.


Architecture of Aberdeen

Constructed in 1892, to a design by open competition winner Alexander Brown, the Central Library, which was opened by its benefactor Andrew Carnegie, stands at the west end of the terrace.

Belgrade University Library

It is a Carnegie library built with the financial resources donated by businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie via the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Carnegie Camp North Point

North Point was designed by Spokane, Washington architect, Kirtland Cutter, for Lucy C. Carnegie, Andrew Carnegie's sister-in-law and matriarch of the Carnegie family.

Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff

In 1957 he married Anne Phipps Sidamon-Eristoff, a granddaughter of Andrew Carnegie's partner Henry Phipps.

Homestead Steel Works

Andrew Carnegie, (a Scottish emigrant), bought the 2 year old Homestead Steel Works in 1883, and integrated it into his Carnegie Steel Company.

Oswego Public Library

In the early 20th Century they petitioned Andrew Carnegie, and in 1912 the original library building was constructed at 704 Fourth Street in Oswego, Kansas.

Randal Cremer

Using his platform as an MP, Cremer cultivated allies on both continental Europe and across the Atlantic, including Frédéric Passy , William Jennings Bryan and Andrew Carnegie.

Saint Andrew's Society

Past presidents of the venerable society include Philip Livingston, William Alexander (the "Earl of Stirling"), Andrew Carnegie and Ward Melville.

Sara Jane Lippincott

She became a prominent member of the literary society of New York along with Anne Lynch Botta, Edgar Allan Poe, Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Horace Greeley, Richard Henry Stoddard, Andrew Carnegie, Mary Mapes Dodge, Julia Ward Howe, Charles Butler, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Delia Bacon, and Bayard Taylor, among others.

Springbourne

Springbourne Library opened in 1909 and was only made possible by its benefactor, Andrew Carnegie, it being 1 of the many Carnegie library's, a scheme created by Andrew Carnegie, that involved building 2509 libraries worldwide, 660 of which were built in the UK, Springbourne Library being 1 of them.

Andrew Carnegie started this scheme as a Philanthropist, after retiring from business and selling his steel enterprises to Mr J. P. Morgan for $6 billion dollars.

Stanley A. Milner Library

The original downtown library was funded by a donation from Andrew Carnegie and completed in 1923 (a temporary downtown library had existed prior to this).

The Law of Success

The work was originally commissioned at the request of Andrew Carnegie at the conclusion of a multi-day interview with Hill, and was based upon interviews of over 100 American millionaires across nearly 20 years, including such self-made industrial giants as Henry Ford, J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas Edison.

Thine Is the Glory

The protagonist is Scott Shallenberger Stewart, who begins as a country boy and ends among the roster of "the lords of creation"—Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, Andrew W. Mellon, George Westinghouse, and others.

TIAA–CREF

In 1918, Andrew Carnegie and his Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, under the leadership of Henry S. Pritchett, created the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA), a fully funded system of pensions for professors.

University Club of Albany

Speakers at its events in its early years included President William Howard Taft, Andrew Carnegie, Earl Grey and various governors of New York.

Walkley

The 20th century saw the building of Walkley branch library on land that was cleared at the junction of South Road and Walkley Road, the library was a Carnegie library built with funding partly provided by Andrew Carnegie and its boundary wall bears a commemorative plate to that effect.