August 11, 1919 (July 16), Kang Xi, the death of steel magnate Andrew Carnegie. In In 1919, the death of Andrew Carnegie "target =" _blank "> Carnegie, a steel magnate donate millions of dollars this morning due to bronchitis disease hair died in the 83-year-old wealthy philanthropist who died in Massachusetts, his Shadow Creek Manor



Carnegie was born in Scotland, the son of a poor textile workers, he emigrated with his family the United States, settled near Pittsburgh, he had as the reel of child labor in the cotton mills at age 14 to become a telegraph couriers. done some other work, started working in the steel business. dying of the
, his property is estimated at more than $ 500 million. various charities before his death was a donation of $ 350 million, including a large library network he once said: "With so much money into the coffin disgraceful Carnegie and Rockefeller, Morgan side by side, was one of the three giants of the sector of the U.S. economy. fame after his turn almost all the wealth of contributions to the community his lifetime donated huge amounts of enough with the dead after the establishment of the Nobel Prize, the Swedish scientist, industrialist Nobel comparable, which became the American hero and a model of personal struggle. (lssjt.cn)