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MR. ANDREW CARNEGIE, the munificent benefactor of popular education in this country and in America, died on August n, at Lenox, Massachusetts, in his eighty-fourth year. The son of a Chartist weaver in Dunfermline, Mr. Carnegie emigrated to the United States in 1848. From the humblest beginnings he rose during the Civil War to an important charge in the department of military transport and telegraphs. Then, by way of subserving his railroad and bridge-building plans, he created vast iron and steel works at Pittsburgh, carried on by means of a company the capital of which reached 25 millions, and which employed 40,000 men. He was bought out for some 50,000,000l. by the Steel Trust in the early 'nineties.
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Andrew Carnegie . Nature 103, 507–508 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/103507b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/103507b0