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.

Carnegie's personal experience as an immigrant, who with help from others worked his way into a position of wealth, reinforced his belief in a society based on merit, where anyone who worked hard could become successful.

James Bertram, Carnegie's personal secretary who ran the program, was never without requests.

Initially, grants followed the pattern of Carnegie's personal philanthropies.

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

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.

Washington Duke at Duke University, Ezra Cornell at Cornell University, Johns Hopkins at Johns Hopkins University, Leland Stanford at Stanford University, and Cornelius Vanderbilt at Vanderbilt University are several notable examples of Andrew Carnegie's gospel of wealth mentality and Carnegie Mellon University is one such result.

The most famous example of this was the Homestead Strike of 1892, when industrialist Henry Clay Frick hired a large contingent of Pinkerton men to regain possession of Andrew Carnegie's steel mill during a lock-out at Homestead, Pennsylvania.

Carnegie's management locked the workforce out, declaring that the union would no longer be recognized at the steel works.

In 1906, N & W president Lucius E. Johnson was brought to the Standard Oil building at 26 Broadway in New York City by Andrew Carnegie to meet with one of Carnegie's old friends: Henry Huttleston Rogers.

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.

Interest in libraries was also heightened at a crucial time in their early development by Carnegie's high profile and his genuine belief in their importance.

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.

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 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.

Carnegie's expedition was originally intended to terminate at Halls Creek, but since they had found no gold-bearing or pastoral land, the party decided to continue exploring, by returning to Coolgardie by a more easterly overland route.

Kloman, Miller, and Phipps were soon at odds over these transactions and one another's refusal to sell out to the others, and they sought Andrew Carnegie's assistance in resolving the dispute.

In 1906, as N & W president, Johnson had the dubious distinction of being brought to the Standard Oil building at 26 Broadway in New York City by Andrew Carnegie to meet with one of Carnegie's old friends, millionaire financier Henry Huttleston Rogers.

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 ).

D., Wetherill became a staff member at Carnegie's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism ( DTM ) in Washington, D. C.

Again directed by Bob McGrath, the work premiered at Carnegie's Zankel Hall in February 2004 with the American Composers Orchestra and combines Bill Morrison's stunning archival and original footage of New York with Laurie Olinder's photographic projections of the urban landscape.

The 2003-04 season saw seven concerts of Gordon's music in New York alone including three world premieres and three American premieres, most notably the world premiere of Gotham at Carnegie's Zankel Hall and the American premiere of Weather by Ensemble Resonanz at Columbia University's Miller Theater.

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

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 ).

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

Carnegie's library motto over the entrance of Edinburgh's Central Library

Carnegie Library ( now Carnegie Hall ) opened in 1912 after Andrew Carnegie's foundation helped finance the brick structure.

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 empire grew to include the J. Edgar Thomson Steel Works, ( named for John Edgar Thomson, Carnegie's former boss and president of the Pennsylvania Railroad ), Pittsburgh Bessemer Steel Works, the Lucy Furnaces, the Union Iron Mills, the Union Mill ( Wilson, Walker & County ), the Keystone Bridge Works, the Hartman Steel Works, the Frick Coke Company, and the Scotia ore mines.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.