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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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It was built mainly from funds donated by the Trust formed by Andrew Carnegie, the great Scottish philanthropist, to provide such buildings in Scottish towns and is a handsome stone building which blends admirably with the old Castle across the street from it.
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Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur
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Andrew is the central distributed computing service provided to the Carnegie Mellon campus by the Computing Services division.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Andrew Carnegie for full information regarding the conditions he would require in the event of a library grant being given by him.
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David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist
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Andrew Carnegie, the Rothschilds, the Vanderbilts and Augustus Juilliard are but names chosen at random from many of those immigrant American philanthropists, to which should be added that of a lesser-known figure, Mrs Jeannette Thurber.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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Theirs was not a glowing success but it kept the library alive until the turn of the century, when the promise of a grant from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, as well as local taxes, raised the prospects for a stable well-funded institution.
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John Fielding,
CEO
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Philanthropist Andrew Carnegie donated $50,000 toward the construction of the three-story building, the lot on the northwest corner was bought for $3,250, $1,000 was spent on books, magazines and newspapers and the foundation of our present system opened its doors to the public.
Andrew Carnegie was a wealthy philanthropist who, as a firm believer in the importance and value of a free public library, donated money to communities across the United States, parts of Canada and the United Kingdom, for the construction of libraries.
Established by steel magnate and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie after the turn of the century, the foundation provided money to smaller communities to build libraries.
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Sveta Romanova,
Intelligence Officer
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Death of Andrew Carnegie, Dunfermline-born, American steel industrialist and philanthropist.
It was built in 1904 with funding from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
Skibo was built in 1898 by Andrew Carnegie, the Scots born industrialist and philanthropist.
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Keith Tennant,
Factory Worker
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Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, on 25th November 1835.
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