CARNEGIE

Adair's new Encyclopedia · 1923 · p. 14
a borough of Pennsylvania, in Allegheny co. It is on the Wabash, Pittsburgh Terminal, the Pittsburgh Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, and other railroads. Its chief industry is the manufacture of steel and it has some of the most important steel manufacturing plants in the country. It is also an important coal mining center. Its other industries include the manufacture of lead, stoves, and graniteware. The public buildings include library, Elks Home, orphan shag aay other public buildings. Pop. 11,516. ist; 6. Dun ferm line, Scotland, whence his father emigrated to Allegheny, Pennsylvania. Through his busine ability in the iron and steel industries, oil, railways, etc., he rose from poverty to great wealth and power. He applied his wealth to useful purposes, including gifts of public libraries throughout America and Great Britain; church organs to numerous Scot.. churches; swimming baths; $10,000,000, 1901 to pay fees of Scot. students and endow research at the Scot. universities (Carnegie Trust); $15,000,000, 1905, to provide pensions for univ. and coll. profe ors in the U.S., Canada, and Newfoundland (The Carnegie Foundation) $10,000,000, 1901 to found the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa., and the same sum, 1902, for foundation of Carnegie Institution, Washington; ‘Hero Funds’ in U.S., Britain, and France, for the pecuniary a istance of persons injured or, when killed, for the a istance of their dependents in saving life; a palace at the Hague for the Court of Arbitration; $10,000,000, 1910, to hasten abolition of international war (Carnegie Peace Fund), in addition to numerous Minor benefactions in America and in his native town of Dun ferm line. Author of several works, including Triumphant Democracy, Problems of To-day, etc.
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