Other concert halls that bear Carnegie's name include 420-seat Carnegie Hall in Lewisburg, West Virginia ; 1928-seat Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the main site of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh ; 1022-seat Carnegie Music Hall annexed to Pittsburgh suburb Homestead's Carnegie library ; and Carnegie Hall, a 540-seat venue, in Andrew Carnegie's native Dunfermline.

J. P. Morgan and the attorney Elbert H. Gary founded U. S. Steel in 1901 ( incorporated on February 25 ) by combining Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel Company with Gary's Federal Steel Company and William Henry " Judge " Moore's National Steel Company for $ 492 million ($ billion today ).

Carnegie's education and passion for reading was given a great boost by Colonel James Anderson, who opened his personal library of 400 volumes to working boys each Saturday night.

The money was secured by the act of his mother placing a $ 500 mortgage on the family's $ 700 home, but the opportunity was only available because of Carnegie's close relationship with Scott.

Carnegie's share of this amounted to $ 225, 639, 000 ( presently, $), which was paid to Carnegie in the form of 5 %, 50-year gold bonds.

The bonds were to be delivered within two weeks to the Hudson Trust Company of Hoboken, New Jersey, in trust to Robert A. Franks, Carnegie's business secretary.

The highlight for them all was a triumphal return to Dunfermline, where Carnegie's mother laid the foundation stone of a Carnegie Library for which he donated the money.

Carnegie's criticism of British society did not mean dislike ; on the contrary, one of Carnegie's ambitions was to act as a catalyst for a close association between the English-speaking peoples.

Carnegie's charm aided by his great wealth meant that he had many British friends, including Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.

In 1886, Carnegie's younger brother Thomas died at age 43.

The fraternity's mission reflects Carnegie's values by developing young men to share their talents to create harmony in the world.

Carnegie's grave site at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in North Tarrytown, New York. The footstone of Andrew CarnegieCarnegie died on August 11, 1919, in Lenox, Massachusetts of bronchial pneumonia.

At the suggestion of his friend Benjamin Ruff, Carnegie's partner Henry Clay Frick had formed the exclusive South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club high above Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

However, Carnegie's reputation was permanently damaged by the Homestead events.

On the subject of charity Andrew Carnegie's actions diverged in the most significant and complex manner from Herbert Spencer's philosophies.

Later in life, Carnegie's firm opposition to religion softened.

Carnegie's personal papers reside at the Library of Congress Manuscript Division.

Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh jointly administer the Andrew Carnegie Collection of digitized archives on Carnegie's life.

It is most probably based upon Andrew Carnegie's Skibo Castle, befitting the character of Scrooge McDuck as a loose caricature of Carnegie.

* The first Carnegie library is opened in Andrew Carnegie's hometown, Dunfermline, Scotland.

The borough prides itself in being the " Birth Place of Steel " for having Andrew Carnegie's Edgar Thomson Steel Works since 1873.

Thomas Carnegie's experience in running the Lucy furnaces led him to co-found the Edgar Thomson Steel Works.

The goal was to buy out Carnegie's steel business and merge it with several other steel, coal, mining and shipping firms to create the United States Steel Corporation.

Morgan began conversations with Charles M. Schwab, president of Carnegie Co., and businessman Andrew Carnegie in 1900 with the intention of buying Carnegie's business and several other steel and iron businesses to consolidate them to create the United States Steel Corporation.

A 1901 strike against Carnegie's successor company, U. S. Steel collapsed.

In the riots of 1892 at Carnegie's steel works in Homestead, Pennsylvania, a group of 300 Pinkerton detectives, whom the company had hired to break a bitter strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, were fired upon by strikers and 10 were killed.

Frick and Carnegie's partnership was strained over actions taken in response to the Homestead Steel Strike, an 1892 labor strike at the Homestead Works of the Carnegie Steel Company, called by the Amalgamated Iron and Steel Workers Union.

Schwab began his career as a engineer in Andrew Carnegie's steelworks and in 1897, at only 35 years of age, became president of the Carnegie Steel Company.

After the buyout, Schwab became the first president of the U. S. Steel Corporation, the company formed out of Carnegie's former holdings.

In the steel industry, for example, after the routing of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers in its titanic strike against Andrew Carnegie's steel operations at Homestead, Pennsylvania in 1892, and the defeat, a generation later, of the 1919 steel strike, the craft unions within the AFL claimed that any attempt to organize steel workers must recognize their separate craft jurisdictions: workers who used bricks to build kilns or similar structures would have to belong to the brickmasons union, workers who sawed wood to build structures within the plant should be carpenters, and so forth.

* The Margaret Carnegie Library ( 1906 ), named after Andrew Carnegie's daughter.

While still the leading partner at his law firm in 1938, Carnegie's Pittsburgh Steamship Company named a ship " Governor Miller " in his honor.

Carnegie's vision was to open a vocational training school for the sons and daughters of working-class Pittsburghers ( Many of whom worked in his mills ).

The Braddock Library included a tunnel entrance for Carnegie's millworkers to enter the bathhouse in the basement to clean up before entering the facilities ( which originally included billiard tables ).

I shall not bury them but give them to the lads who long for a wider education "; his philosophy quietly anticipated Andrew Carnegie's much publicized Gospel of Wealth by more than 25 years.

Carnegie's single largest commitment in this field was his creation of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

In the late 1940s, the Carnegie Corporation of New York arranged for microfilming of the correspondence files relating to Andrew Carnegie's gifts and grants to communities for the public libraries and church organs.

Carnegie Hall commissioned the song cycle The Seven Deadly Sins: A Song Cycle for McDonald, and she performed it at Carnegie's Zankel Hall on June 2, 2004.

Late in 1893, Douglas was appointed a director of a new mining exploration company, thus securing finances for Carnegie's prospecting.

At first, the terrain was largely flat, and consisted almost entirely of spinifex and sand ( hence the name Spinifex and Sand for Carnegie's published account of the expedition ).

The museum's origins can be traced to 1886 with Andrew Carnegie's initial concept: " I am thinking of incorporating with the plan for a library that of an art-gallery in which shall be preserved a record of the progress and development of pictorial art in America ".

There was even a landing for Thomas Carnegie's steam-powered yacht, the Missoe.

Shrewd investments included real estate holdings in downtown Pittsburgh, coal fields, and a $ 10, 000 loan to Henry Clay Frick in 1871, which would provide the coke for Andrew Carnegie's steel mills.

Dale Carnegie's first job out of college was working for Armour & Company as their South Omaha sales representative.

In October 2008, as part of Carnegie's year-long festival celebrating the legacy of Leonard Bernstein, the BSO performed the late composer's large scale work, Mass: A Theatre Piece for Players, Singers and Dancers.

Carnegie Corporation has helped establish or endowed a variety of institutions, including the Carnegie libraries, the National Research Council, the Russian Research Center at Harvard, and the Children's Television Workshop, and for many years heavily supported Carnegie's other philanthropic organizations, especially Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ( CEIP ), the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ( CFAT ), and the Carnegie Institution for Science ( CIS ).