Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie was a male philanthropist, business magnate, economist, and industrialist born in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, on November 25, 1835. He held citizenship in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States. A member of the American Philosophical Society, he practiced Presbyterianism and spoke English. His professional movements included patriotism, philanthropy, and non-interventionism.

Carnegie died of bronchopneumonia due to natural causes in Lenox on August 11, 1919. He is buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. He was married to Louise Whitfield Carnegie, and they had a child named Margaret Carnegie Miller. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

He authored 60 works, including *American Four in Hand*, *Empire of Business*, *The Gospel of Wealth and Other Timely Essays*, *Pioneers of America*, *American Four-In-Hand in Britain*, and *Americanism Versus Imperialism*. His writings were published in the English language. He is described by sources such as *Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography*, the *Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary*, *The Nuttall Encyclopædia*, and the *Encyclopædia Britannica* 11th edition.