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13. Apr. 2024 · Funded by the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust, they were a tribute to the wife of Andrew Carnegie, Louise Whitfield. The design incorporates Louise’s initials, together with three letters ‘M’ for Margaret Morrison, Andrew Carnegie’s mother, Margaret Carnegie their daughter and Margaret Miller, their grand-daughter.
Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) was among the most famous and wealthy industrialists of his day. Through the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the innovative philanthropic foundation he established in 1911, his fortune has since supported everything from the discovery of insulin and the dismantling of nuclear weapons, to the creation of Sesame Street and the Common Core Standards.
Louise Whitfield Carnegie: The Life Of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie. Burton Jesse Hendrick, Daniel Henderson. Literary Licensing, LLC, Apr 14, 2012 - 336 pages. Other editions - View all. Louise Whitfield Carnegie: The Life of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie Burton Jesse H ...
Daughter of New York City merchant John D. Whitfield, Louise was born in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan. On April 22, 1887 she married Carnegie at her family’s home in New York City in a private ceremony officiated by a pastor from the Church of the Divine Paternity, a Universalist church to which the Whitfields belonged.
In 1887, Carnegie married Louise Whitfield of New York City. She supported his philanthropy and signed a prenuptial marriage agreement stating Carnegie’s intention of giving away virtually his entire fortune during his lifetime. Two years later, he wrote The Gospel of Wealth, which boldly articulated his view of the rich as trustees of their ...
Margaret Carnegie Miller (March 30, 1897 – April 11, 1990) was the only child of industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and Louise Whitfield, and heiress to the Carnegie fortune. [1] [2] A native of Manhattan, New York City , from 1934 to 1973, Miller was a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, a grant-making foundation.
9. Aug. 2019 · 4 Burton J. Hendrick & Daniel Henderson, Louise Whitfield Carnegie: The Life of Mrs Andrew Carnegie (New York: Hastings House,1950), p.217. 5 Letter from James Hardie to Louise Whitfield Carnegie, 26 October 1920, Letter Book 27, Skibo Castle Archive, p.597; Letter from James Hardie to George Henry Paulin, 1 December 1921, Letter Book 28, Skibo Castle Archive, p.4
