For years , every prison term we so much as touch a toe out of province , I ’ve put cemetery on our travelling route . From garden - corresponding expanse to overgrown boot hills , whether they ’re the net resting situation of the well - have it away but not that important or the important but not that well - do it , I love them all . After realise that there are a band of taphophiles ( cemetery and/or tombstone partizan ) out there , I ’m finally put my archive of interesting tombstones to good use . See all the Grave Sightings postshere .
For a hombre worth about $ 310 billion , Andrew Carnegie ’s tomb is moderately modest — but that ’s meet for the man who gave away the vast legal age of his fate while he was still alive .
A ( very ) quick overview of Carnegie ’s storied sprightliness : deport in Scotland in 1835 , Andrew and his very poor family move to the U.S. in 1848 and settled in Allegheny , Pennsylvania . His family ’s poverty stuck with him , and he vowed to serve others when he was in the position to do so . “ It was burnt into my heart then that my father had to pray for workplace , ” Carnegie later wrote , “ and then and there came the resolution that I would bring around that when I got to be a man . "
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He made good on that hope , or at least try . After a caboodle of small rummy jobs — exchange reel of thread in a cotton mill , serving as a telegraph courier boy — vernal Andrew get down rising through the ranks of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and made a series of good investment determination , including establishing a steel John Mill . He opened his own steel plant life in 1875 and continued to grow his businesses and keeping over the next 26 year . In 1901 , he sell Carnegie Steel for an absolutely unprecedented $ 480 million , making him ( at the meter ) the rich mankind in the world . But he did n’t think in keep on that money , and in fact wrote “ The Gospel of Wealth ” that explain his beliefs on how moneyed people could and should apply their circumstances for the advance of company .
Among other things , Carnegie ’s money make 2509 program library worldwide , founded or established turgid trusts at several universities , constructed Carnegie Hall in New York , fund 7000 church organs , and started a $ 10 million pension fund for teacher . Which is not to say that Carnegie did n’t have his faults . grant to various accounts , he was needlessly vicious to masses , prize efficiency over the safety of his steelman , and empower Henry Frick to do whatever was necessary to squelch a labor strike at one of his mills in 1892 . Nine worker end up being killed by Pinkerton agents .
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Joseph Wall , one of Carnegie ’s biographers , hypothecate that " perhaps with the giving away of his money , he would rationalise what he had done to get that money . " And he certainly did give it away . By the metre Andrew Carnegie passed away from complications from pneumonia at the eld of 83 in 1919 , he had given away about 90 percent of the wealth he had roll up over the age . His headstone at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow , New York , is made of stone fromSkibo Castle , Carnegie ’s home in Scotland .
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