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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.
The museum site includes the original 18th-century weavers cottage in which Andrew Carnegie was born and a memorial hall added by James Shearer in 1928. Carnegie's wife, Louise Whitfield Carnegie, purchased the cottage in 1895 from William Templeman using a legacy bequeathed to her from her grandfather. Upon the creation of the Carnegie ...
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 1895 Andrew Carnegie’s wife Louise Whitfield Carnegie purchased the Birthplace Cottage from William Templeman using a legacy bequeathed to her from her grandfather. After the creation of the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust in 1903, Louise asked the Trustees to look after the cottage and it was opened to the public in 1908.
LOUISE WHITFIELD CARNEGIE: Life of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie by ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 15, 1951 There is the nostalgic quality of an old Currier & Ives print about the early life of this New York merchant's daughter who was born near Clement Moore's home in Chelsea, grew up in Gramercy Park and on upper Fifth Avenue when it was strictly residential.
Carnegie befand sich gerade mit seiner Frau Louise Whitfield auf der Hochzeitsreise nach Schottland. Die Carnegies und Damroschs freundeten sich an, und gemeinsam entwickelten sie die Idee der Carnegie Hall, deren Bau 1890 begann. Andrew Carnegie finanzierte den Bau des Konzerthauses und kam auch über viele Jahre hinweg für die Verluste auf ...
23. Nov. 2022 · By age 30, around 1865, Carnegie was a multi-millionaire business tycoon with business interests in iron works, steamers on the Great Lakes, railroads, and oil wells. It wasn’t until 1880, at age 45, he began courting his future wife, Louise Whitfield, age 23. Miss Whitfield was born in Chelsea, Manhattan in 1857 to English immigrant and ...
