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1 Born Died Cause of death Occupation Net worth $298.3 billion Spouse(s) Children Signature birthplace of in Dunfermline, Scotland

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3 Carnegie, circa 1878

4 An American Four-in-hand in Britain Nineteenth Century North American Review Triumphant Democracy North American Review Pall Mall Gazette

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6 Carnegie, right, with James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce. Syracuse University A Carnegie library, Macomb, Illinois Triumphant Democracy Gospel of Wealth

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8 The Homestead Strike

9 Carnegie at Skibo Castle, 1914 Man does not live by bread alone. I have known millionaires starving for lack of the nutriment which alone can sustain all that is human in man, and I know workmen, and many socalled poor men, who revel in luxuries beyond the power of those millionaires to reach. It is the mind that makes the body rich. There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. Money can only be the useful drudge of things immeasurably higher than itself. Exalted beyond this, as it sometimes is, it remains Caliban still and still plays the beast. My aspirations take a higher flight. Mine be it to have contributed to the enlightenment and the joys of the

10 mind, to the things of the spirit, to all that tends to bring into the lives of the toilers of Pittsburgh sweetness and light. I hold this the noblest possible use of wealth. [26] The Law of Success Think and Grow Rich Think and Grow Rich!: The Original Version, Restored and Revised Stained glass window dedicated to Andrew Carnegie in the National Cathedral

11 I do not see that it is wise to devote our efforts to creating another organization. Of course I may be wrong in believing that, but I am certainly not wrong that if it were dependent on any millionaire s money it would begin as an object of pity and end as one of derision. I wonder that you do not see this. There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire s money. It s life is tainted thereby. [33] Triumphant Democracy The Gospel of Wealth An American Four-in-hand in Britain Round the World The Empire of Business James Watt Problems of Today Autobiography of Diplodocus carnegiei

12 The Statue of in his home town of Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland Carnegiea Little Boss: A life of Andrew Carnegie Little Boss: A life of Andrew Carnegie Little Boss:A life of Andrew Carnegie Incredible Carnegie Incredible Carnegie Andrew Carnegie Industrial Cuba Health, Politics and Revolution in Cuba Cornell Alumni News

13 Issues in Web-based The Battle for Homestead Pedagogies The Change Makers Philanthropy in America " Dies Of Pneumonia In His 84th Year. Taken Ill At Shadow Brook On Friday, He Sinks Rapidly. Wife Is At His Bedside. Estate Estimated At $500,000,000, While His Benefactions Totaled $350,695,650. Started As A Poor Boy. Funeral To Be Held Thursday In Lenox, But No Services in New York.". New York Times. 12 August pdf?res=9a05e2da1338ee32a25751c1a96e9c946896d6cf. Retrieved on "Andrew Carnegie died at Shadow Brook of bronchial pneumonia at 7:10 o clock this morning." "Carnegie s Estate, At Time Of Death, About $30,000,000; Will, Probated Yesterday, Distributes $10,000,000 To Friends And Philanthropies. Residue To Public Use. Wife And Daughter Provided For Long Before Last Testament Was Made. Grants Many Annuities. Total Of Philanthropic Gifts, Including Bequests, Estimatedat $371,065,653. Annuities For Associates. Carnegie s Estate About $30,000,000. Made Void By Contest. Total Benefactions $371,065,653.". New York Times. 29 August pdf?res=9e03e3df103de533a2575ac2a96e9c946896d6cf. Retrieved on "The will of, filed here yesterday and admitted to probate immediately by Surrogate Fowler, disposes of an estate estimated at between $25,000,000 and $30,000,000. The residuary estate of about $20,000,000 goes to the Carnegie Corporation." Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist "Carnegie, Andrew". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.) This article incorporates text from the public domain Appleton s Cyclopedia of American Biography. Autobiography of Think and Grow Rich The History of Theta Xi

14 Academic offices James Stuart Rector of the University of St Andrews The Lord Avebury The Robber Barons: The Great American Capitalists, The Tycoons: How, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business Illinois Libraries Pennsylvania History A Lifetime of Riches. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History Andrew Carnegie: A Tribute Think and Grow Rich Carnegie Libraries: The Future Made Bright Persondata

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