What Happened To The Carnegie Fortune?
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2024
- I'm sorry it took me so long to get this video out. Not only did the research take a long time, but I was moving in the middle of it, and there was so me other drama in my personal life as well.
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William McKinley was a Republican not a Democrat and the winner of the 1900 Presidential election was McKinley. Theodore Roosevelt was his running mate. Roosevelt became President following McKinley's assassination September 14th 1901.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McKinley
Yes, I’m sorry, I got that information wrong.
My home city's first library was funded by Carnegie. They refused to name it after him though, because Lethbridge Coal miner unions had some strong feelings about how the Homestead strike went.
From Pittsburgh - There are some beautiful Carnegie libraries around our city.
Can I just say, I'm grateful that you're still making videos, even though you're involved with your internship and the conditions aren't the most favourable. Thanks for great content as usual✨
I appreciate that!
When we lived in Illinois, our small town had a Carnegie library, and it was linked with all the other Carnegie libraries in the state. When we would visit other towns, our library cards could be used to check out books and other materials from any of those libraries, and they could be returned at any of those libraries. As a one-income homeschooling family, that was HUGE. I think he would have been pleased to know that his generous gifts were used to further education in the first third of life. 🙂 Like everyone else, he was imperfect, but he has my gratitude.
He was Terrible to his employees. Giving the money you made away from treating your workers horribly doesn't make you great. If he had treated his employees well that would have been a better legacy.
Not saying treating employees bad is a good thing. But being objective, how many plaques are placed for kindly owners? Please show me how many buildings are name after people because they treated their workers well. Do you even know of such a legacy? If I am being honest, I suspect you likely think anyone who has become wealthy did it at the expense of their workers.
@@answerman9933 More often then not yes, More often than not great wealth comes on the backs of someone else. The few that do treat their workers far should be recognized.
@@crookedbird6589 You go ahead and recognize them. Society has chosen to ignore them.
@@crookedbird6589 Nothing great is done alone. Everything comes off the backs of others.
I Agree with Crookedbird. Employees were placed in horrible life-threatening conditions on a regular basis. Sure, Carnegie built libraries etc and appeared like a great philanthropist - but he would have been a truly 'great' man if he'd used his profits to benefit his employees day-to-day life. Heinz was known for this at the time - great employee benefits. Carnegie should have followed suit. Happy employees make for a profitable company.
I think Carnegie may have been influenced by Protestant faith. Here is a quote from evangelist John Wesley, "Earn all you can; Save all you can, give all you can ..."
Thank youg for the video.
Did you know that Carnegie met with Abdu'l Baha in 1912, the son of Baha'u'llah, founder of the Baha'i faith, a monotheist faith which believes in and promotes universal peace, unity of all races and religions, equality between men and women, unicity of God, the abolition of the extremes of richness and poverty...
Abdu'l Baha who is regarded as the incarnation of all baha'i principles, actually praised Carnegie for his philanthropies, and encouraged him in this path. They stayed in contact through letters.
He also had to meet with JP Morgan, but Morgan didn't show up while Abdu'l Baha was waiting for him in his big library in New York. Later he stated that for Morgan money was not a tool for comfort unfortunately but a source of constant anguish...
Wow. I LOVE your channel. Your Gilded Age family videos speak directly to an interest I've had for a very long time. I also enjoy your presentation very much. The way you dress adds a lot.
If only some modern wealthy people were like Andrew Carnegie...
This was brilliant and so interesting. Thank you for your hard work!
We have a Carnegie library in our small town in Maine.
Another great video--thank you. I am from Minnesota and have seen many Carnegie libraries. It always amazed me how many were in our state alone. The fact that Carnegie made public libraries a priority makes me respect him more despite his shady business dealings.
The public library in my small California city, at that time just a town, was funded and built by Carnegie. It’s a beautiful turn-of-the-20th C. structure. Unfortunately, a horribly anachronistic and unsympathetic annex was attached to it in the mid-20th C. I wish they would replace the ugly annex with something better. I respect and appreciate Carnegie for giving so much of his wealth to enhance the lives of the ordinary people of his adopted country.
He really taught me how to make friends and influence people
There are Carnegie Libraries in Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. 🇨🇦
He also said, " A man who dies wealthy dies discrassed"
I can hear it! Scottish!
Great channel! My daughter would love the clothing stuff. Any particular reason you didn't mention Carnegie Hall? It's not the best hall for sound but has an unparalleled history.
I just had to pick and choose what to mention. Time constraints.
As a proud Oregon immigrant who emigrated from Maryland, I'm proud you live here too.
Your final guess was correct. The Eads Bridge in St. Louis was and is a marvel and is pronounced “Eeds” the a is silent. Eads Bridge continues to support vehicular and rail traffic. James Eads was one of the most important engineers the United States has ever produced.
PS: despite his anti-imperialist views, he was a ruthless capitalist and brutal opponent of organized labor. In short, Carnegie, like America, was a bundle of contradictions.
Another great video! Keep it up!👏👏👏
Just a small correction. Hoboken is in New Jersey, not New York.
Goldendale Washington here with a Carnegie library . Most beautiful buildings in town because he not only paid but you got a Real Architect No little town would have afforded.
Many of the buildings have been outgrown as Towns become cities so many are now converted to art museums, community centers etc.
Our town kept the library and hired a real architect to match the original as much as possible despite the costs due to board member with taste. Thank you Mr Boardman!
Besides the Carnegie libraries (which are awesome btw, ) Carnegie Corporation gave matching grants for over 7,000 church organs. Most were pipe organs, but some were reed (pump) organs. The church had to demonstrate need, raise the first half of the money, and commission an instrument. Carnegie would then pay the second half of the cost. The little Congregational church in Guerneville CA sought Carnegie's help replacing their pump organ, saying "look, our town survives on a lumber mill and daytrippers from San Francisco, we've got four saloons but can't support two full time ministers." They got a grant.
Welcome to Oregon! We have Interesting history here.
Fascinating. Thank you for your tireless research. A fan girl.😊
My pleasure!
I have heard that he said, "The man who dies rich dies disgraced", however I thought it was Alice Walton.
I grew up in NYC in the 1960s, and I had the impression that nearly every branch of the New York Public Library was a "Carnegie Library." Those that weren't were formerly independent libraries in old outer borough towns or were built after Carnegie's death. There is also, of course, Carnegie Hall, which remains the best orchestral concert hall in NYC acoustically, despite recent improvements at Lincoln Center's David Geffin Hall. As a kid, I sang in a boys' choir that sang as part of an annual Christmas concert there every year.
Also, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in NYC, built between 1898 and 1902, is Andrew Carnegie's former "retirement" home. Not surprisingly, it was built on a steel frame, though with a traditional masonry exterior of brick and stone, and it housed the first residential elevator in the US, as well as a service elevator for the servants. 😉
As an aside, in NYC the name "Carnegie" is usually pronounced with an emphasis on the second syllable: "CarNEgie" rather than "CARnegie." I don't know if that's the way he pronounced his name, but the fact it has stuck in NYC for many generations suggests to me that it was.
🥰They pronounce it CarNEgie across the pond in the United Kingdom too.💕
1st off Adelaide, congrats on your internship!!
FYI: Theres a large bronze statue of Carnegie in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland🥰
CarNEgie Mellon University also emphasizes the second syllable.
What a great job you did with this. Good work
Thank you very much!
There are some very admirable qualities associated with Andrew Carnage. I think it's not hard to say that he must have met with many criticisms throughout the time that he'd probably call the 2nd part of his life's goal. The third shows that he definitely had a huge heart for people and peace. I do think that he's the kind who with enough power, could by his effort to make everyone equal and at peace, he'd rather take control. High ideals are great, but someone with the capabilities of Andrew Carnage and his immense heart might become over zealous toward that goal. 😃😃💖💖👋👋
As a Pgh native and CMU alum, I was interested to listen to this video. You didn’t mention the castle he bought in Scotland, “Skibo,” however.
There is a Carnegie library in Reims, France. I have seen it.
Good research
Congratulations on your internship!
Thank you!!
I'm from a small town in Eastern Oregon 👍
Another living relative that I'm aware of is Joseph Carnegie (He's 2nd cousins with Andrew Carnegie a few times removed) He did a DNA test to confirm the suspicions that his Dad had about them being related to THE Carnegie. I'm going to leave the link to that video in a second comment just in case CZcams removes links. I will say though, it boggles my mind that it takes so little time to forget who your ancestors are if you don't write it down.
I’m from Pittsburgh, so… In all honesty, Carnegie was a bit of an odd duck. You didn’t mention that he first became acquainted with the Pennsylvania Rail Road (PRR) when, as a telegraph operator and delivery boy in Pittsburgh (his job after being a “bobbin boy”), he delivered telegrams to Thomas A. Scott, an executive of the PRR. Scott took a liking to him--Carnegie was, apparently, a bit of a “kiss ass,” and the rest, as they say, is history. Like all of the gilded age industrialists, he took advantages of the, then, lack of laws intended to insure arms-length transactions and ethical business practices. Self-dealing was just the way it was then. He initially made his money from his interest in the bridge company, which did much of its business with the PRR. At that time, Carnegie and other bridge company principals were also PRR executives. Carnegie was showy in giving away his money (all of the libraries are, after all, “Carnegie Libraries”). In contrast, Rockefeller was much quieter in giving away his money and, being wealthier, gave away much more. A final interesting thing about Carnegie is that he tried to reform English spelling! He advocated more phonetic spelling of English words. Wouldn’t we all be better off with that?
My favorite places in the world are the beautiful Carnegie Libraries I was blessed to live near.
i love your attention to detail when researching your stories. However i should point out that Hoboken is in New Jersey and not New York, It is part of the Manhattan skyline but physically sits in the state of New Jersey. Thanks for your wonderful stories. Keep up the good work. Goodluck with your internship.
You have got to be kidding me. All my life I just assumed that it was in New York.
@@AdelaideBeemanWhite no worries. take care
Interesting information, what I did hear, but the music, being too loud, drove me nuts. It was difficult to override so I did not finish the video.
..ive softened on my Southern views but i still hate a pinkerton..good presentation :)
I am not getting notifications when you have new videos! I have my notifications turned on. Very odd!?
Oh no!
I ask queer about what you could do to make your face less pointy , he insisted less dagger red
It is astounding to me that you managed 18 minutes of a video, a good third of which was devoted to Carnegie's philanthropy, without once mentioning Carnegie Effing Hall.
Also, a script editing note -- you could just round those 2023 dollars to the nearest million, don't you think? (I mean, FFS, ",,, and 68 cents?" Really?)
I understand you are in a closet and doing an internship so the content is appreciated. But the music/voice mix isn't there. There is nothing wrong with a silent background if you don't have resources/time to do a high quality job. This is just feedback. Thank you as always.
Where is Hoboken?
New Jersey. I misspoke. Sorry.
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had to hunt for this one, why didn't CZcams offer it up? I am subscribed. Personally I really dislike Carnegie.
That’s fair. He’s my favorite of the robber barons, but that is a very low bar.
@@AdelaideBeemanWhite His use of strike breakers and Pinkertons to murder people who wanted a Union was unforgivable for me.
He was a brutal man who made millions on the backs and bodies of men he could have easily have afforded to treat like human beings.
He tried to buy his way into heaven with his 'philanthropy' and I hope he failed.
Are you actually time travelling and looking for a lost treasure with our help?😂
I will neither confirm nor deny that.
May I correct a factual error in your video? You referred to “Hoboken, New York,” but Hoboken is in New Jersey instead. Also, you pronounced it as “HoBOken” - it’s “HOboken.”
Interesting. But please lose the music. Thx
I hate being this guy and it's not your fault it's New York's but as a lifelong Pittsburgher it's Car-Nay-Gee not Car-Nuh-gee. Overall nice video though.
Promo*SM
sorry, can't listen with that annoying music playing.
I have subscribed to your channel. I am admiring your treasure trove of knowledge and insights. Thank You
Thank you!
Congratulations on your internship!
Thank you so much 😀