South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-11
CARNEGIE DIES
OF PNEUMONIA
AT AGE OF IA
Worlds Greatest PhiIanthrOpiSt
SuCCumbS to Grim Reaper
at Massachusetts, Home
BY nited Press

BY United Press.
LEMON. Mass, Aug 11.-Andrew
Carnegie diet at his summer home
here shortly after O'Clock this
morning. The cause Of his death was
said TO be bronchial pneumonia
Andrew Carnegie. philanthropist.
was oorn at Dunfermline Fifeshire,
Scotland. Nov. 25. 1895. He came
with mis- family 10 the United States
in 1S4S. settling in Pittsburg.
He was lord rector Of St. Andrews
university from 1903 TO 1907. from
which he received the degree of
LID. in 1905. He was lord rector
OF Aberdeen university from 1912 TO
1914 He received the degree from
Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, in
1915
Carnegie married Louise Whitfield
Of New York city in 1887.
Was Wcavcr's Assistant.
His first work in America was
that of a weaver's assistant in a
cotton factory in Allegheny. Pa. aft
or which, in 1851. he became telt-
graph messenger boy for the Ohio
Telegraph co. at Pittsburg.
He learned telegraphy and enter
ed the employ OF the Pennsylvania
Railroad Co. as an operator, advanc-
ing by promotion TO the manage
ment Of the Pittsburg division Of
that system.
He ioined T. Woodruff. inventor
of the sleeping car, in organizing
the Woodruff Sleeping Car Co. gain
ing through this the nucleus OF his
fortune.
Careful investment of small earn
ings in oil lands increased Carne-
gie's means. During the Civil war he
served as superintendent OF military
railways and government telegraph
lines in the east.
After the war Carnegie developed
iron works of various kinds and es-
tablished at Pittsburg the Keystone
Bridge works and the Union Iron
works.
Introduced BesSemer Process.
He introduced the Bessemer pro-
cess of making steel in this coun-
try in 1868
He was principal owner a few
years later OF the Homestead and
Edgar Thomson Steel works and
other large plants as head o. the
firms Of Carnegie, Phipps & Co. and
| Carnegie Brothers & Co.
Carnegie consolidated his inter
ests IN 1889 in the so-called billion
dollar steel trust, the Carnegie Steel
Co. This in 1901 was merged with
the United States Steel corporation.
, Carnegie closed this part OF his
/ life by retiring from business. Dat
/ ing from his retirement. Carnegie
/ began chapter Of speech making.
globe-trotting and million dollar
gift giving. which lasted till his
death
Founded Countless Libraries.
/ He flooded America and England
with libraries and other institutions.
His benefactions extended 10 prac-
tically every civilized country in the
world. His writings were translated
into eight different languages
His benefactions included S24,-
10000 TO the Carnegie Institute OF
4 Pittsburg. S5,1OO.OO0 TO New York
city for establishment OF branch IL
! braries, $4,000 600 TO the Carnegie
! Institution OF Washington. u. c.:
$4,000, 600 10 Scotch universities
s.. 000 900 TO a fund for the benefit
OF the employees OF the Carnegie
Steel Co. 100000 to the ST. Louis
public library. $1,000. 900 TO the Car
negie Hero Fund commission OF
/ Pittsburg
lie also gave s1,50O.OOO 10 the
/ Carnegie Dunfermline trust: $500
600 for the Peace temple at The
Hague and S1.50O,OOO to the Allied
Engineers society.
Carnegies' benefactions totalleC
more than $500. 600. 600. which wa:
the size OF his fortune in 1913 This
enormous amount included more
than 500. 600. 600 TO 5000 municipal
library buildings. also the building
and grounds for the Pan-Americar
I Union building at Washington in
1906; S16,150,0OO for the foundation
for the Advancement of Teaching IL
the -nited States. Canada and New
foundland.
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