ANDREW CARNEGIE
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Definitions of ANDREW CARNEGIE
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United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919)
By Princeton University
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A noted Scotch-American manufacturer, and writer of travels and essays on affairs; born at Dunfermline, Scotland, Nov. 25, 1837. He is proprietor of the largest iron and steel works in the world, at Pittsburg, Pa. His benefactions have been large and numerous, among them gifts of public libraries to Allegheny City and to Pittsburg. Besides many articles in periodicals, he has written: "An American Four-in-Hand in Britain" (1883); "Round the World" (1884); "Triumphant Democracy" (1886); "The Life of Business" (1902); "The Life of James Watt" (1906).
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An American manufacturer, philanthropist and author; born in Dunfermline, Scot., Nov. 25, 1837. He came to the United States in 1848 and amassed a large fortune. He expended many millions in the endowment of a great number of free libraries both in America and Scotland. Among his published works are: "Triumphant Democracy", "An American Four-in-Hand in Britain", "Round the World"; "Wealth"; "Life of Watt".
By Charles Dudley Warner
