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The surname Carnegie derived from the place-name Carnegie near Carmyllie in Angus. It probably came from the Gaelic cathair an eige, meaning "fort at the gap."
Scotland. Carnegie in Scotland has generally been a name localized in and around Angus in the northeast of Scotland. The family who adopted this name however, were originally known under an earlier adopted place-name of Balinhard, also in Angus. John of Balinhard was the first to adopt the name of Carnegie in 1358.
Two brothers of that name, David and John, made reputations for themselves by supporting the Royalist cause during the Civil War. They were created the Earls of Southesk and Northesk respectively (the names coming from the Esk river in Angus). Both earldoms have continued to the present day. The 12th Earl of Southesk assumed through his mother the title of Duke of Fife and a connection with the royal family. Their home has been Kinnaird castle near Brechin since the 15th century.
There were other Carnegie families in Angus. George Carnegie of Balnamoon had fought at Culloden in 1746. After the defeat he fled to Sweden where he prospered in business. Another Carnegie line has been traced back to Colin Carnegie who married Isabel Grieg in Brechin in 1772. Meanwhile Andrew Carnegie, the son of a handloom weaver in Dunfermline, Fife, left with his parents for America in 1848. This Andrew Carnegie was to be the most famous bearer of the Carnegie name.
America. Andrew Carnegie had arrived in Pittsburgh at the age of thirteen and immediately started working as a bobbin boy in a cotton mill. He was to earn most of his fortune in the steel industry. In the 1870's, he founded the Carnegie Steel Company, a step which cemented his name as one of America's "captains of industry." By the 1890's the company had become the largest and most profitable industrial enterprise in the world. He sold it in 1901 to J.P. Morgan.
Carnegie devoted the remainder of his life to large-scale philanthropy. In his The Gospel of Work of 1898 he wrote: "The man who dies rich dies disgraced."
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Andrew Carnegie, born in Scotland, made his fortune as a steel-maker in America.
Dale Carnegie was the American author of How to Win Friends and Influence People, a massive best-seller when it was published in 1936.
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The surname Carnegie derived from the place-name Carnegie near Carmyllie in Angus. It probably came from the Gaelic cathair an eige, meaning "fort at the gap."
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Scotland. Carnegie in Scotland has generally been a name localized in and around Angus in the northeast of Scotland. The family who adopted this name however, were originally known under an earlier adopted place-name of Balinhard, also in Angus. John of Balinhard was the first to adopt the name of Carnegie in 1358.
Two brothers of that name, David and John, made reputations for themselves by supporting the Royalist cause during the Civil War. They were created the Earls of Southesk and Northesk respectively (the names coming from the Esk river in Angus). Both earldoms have continued to the present day. The 12th Earl of Southesk assumed through his mother the title of Duke of Fife and a connection with the royal family. Their home has been Kinnaird castle near Brechin since the 15th century.
There were other Carnegie families in Angus. George Carnegie of Balnamoon had fought at Culloden in 1746. After the defeat he fled to Sweden where he prospered in business. Another Carnegie line has been traced back to Colin Carnegie who married Isabel Grieg in Brechin in 1772. Meanwhile Andrew Carnegie, the son of a handloom weaver in Dunfermline, Fife, left with his parents for America in 1848. This Andrew Carnegie was to be the most famous bearer of the Carnegie name.
America. Andrew Carnegie had arrived in Pittsburgh at the age of thirteen and immediately started working as a bobbin boy in a cotton mill. He was to earn most of his fortune in the steel industry. In the 1870's, he founded the Carnegie Steel Company, a step which cemented his name as one of America's "captains of industry." By the 1890's the company had become the largest and most profitable industrial enterprise in the world. He sold it in 1901 to J.P. Morgan.
Carnegie devoted the remainder of his life to large-scale philanthropy. In his The Gospel of Work of 1898 he wrote: "The man who dies rich dies disgraced."
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Andrew Carnegie, born in Scotland, made his fortune as a steel-maker in America.
Dale Carnegie was the American author of How to Win Friends and Influence People, a massive best-seller when it was published in 1936.
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