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Title: Financial giants of America
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Redmond, George F
Subjects: Capitalists and financiers
Publisher: Boston, Mass., The Stratford company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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7 August Belmont 277 Andrew Carnegie ...... 1 William A. Clark 179 Samuel P. Colt 99 William E. Corey 307 eTames B. Duke 123 T. Coleman DuPont 23 Alexander R. Erskine 65 Henry Ford 11 Elbert H. Gary 37 King C. Gillette 327 Daniel Guggenheim 51 Henry J. Heinz 285 Samuel Insull ... ... 243 Cyrus H. McCormiek 297- John P. Morgan, Sr 89 John H. Patterson 255 Henry Phipps 221 Daniel G. Reid 319 William A. Rockefeller 157 John D. Ryan Ill Charles M. Schwab 133 Quincy Adams Shaw 145 James A, Speyer 267 Louis F. Swift ( 167 Cornelius Vanderbilt 75 Sidney W. Winslow 341 William M. Wood 193 William Wrigley, Jr 231 The story of Carnegie is the story of the growthand development of the Steel Age. Here is one ofthe Giants who has attained fame both in the mak-ing and spending of money. The memory of Andreiv Carnegie mil live longthrough his generous gifts to libraries—longer thanthe steel made in his mills. All America pays glow-ing tribute to the little Scotchman who put Pitts-burgh on the map.
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ANDREW CARNEGIE ANDREW CARNEGIE THE most forceful personality which the steel industryof this country has produced was the late Andrew Car-negie. Carnegies birthplace was Dunfermline, Scotland.He was an impelling force and a great leader in the iron tradeof this country. Mr. Carnegie was without a peer in his life-time in never-failing confidence in the steel industry and inthe keenest comprehension of its needs. Carnegies father was a weaver, who, with his family,emigrated in 1 848 to the United States. Beginning life with-out even the usual school education, young Carnegie workedin various humble positions in Pittsburgh, where he found em-ployment in a telegraph office and obtained a footing in therailroad world. The basis of the immense fortune he wasable to amass was due to his connection with the iron w^orkswhich he established in Pittsburgh ,and which subsequentlydeveloped into the vast industry of the Carnegie Steel Co. The Carnegie company in February, 1901, was, with anumberfinancialgiantso00redm2

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