Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
relations with J.G. Blaine, 320, 321, 328, 341-46;
friendship with John Morley, 322-28;
estimate of Elihu Root, 324;
buys Lord Acton's library, 325;
on Irish Home Rule, 327;
attempts newspaper campaign of political progress, 330;
writes _Triumphant Democracy_, 330-32;
a disciple of Herbert Spencer, 333-40;
delegate to the Pan-American Congress, 346, 350;
entertains President Harrison, 347, 348;
founds Carnegie Institute at Pittsburgh, 348;
influence in the Chilian quarrel, 350-52;
suggests Mr. Shiras for the Supreme Court, 353;
on the Behring Sea dispute, 354, 355;
opinion of Mr. Blaine, 355, 357;
relations with John Hay, 358-61;
and with President McKinley, 359, 363;
on annexation of the Philippines, 362-65;
criticism of W.J. Bryan, 364;
impressions of the German emperor, 366-71;
hopeful of President Wilson, 371, 372.
Carnegie, Louise Whitfield, wife of A.C., 215-19;
charmed by Scotland, 215;
her enjoyment of the pipers, 216;
the Peace-Maker, 218;
honored with freedom of Dunfermline, 271;
first honorary member of Carnegie Veteran Association, 292.
Carnegie, Margaret Morrison, mother of A.C., 6, 12;
reticent on religious subjects, 22, 50;
a wonderful woman, 31, 32, 38, 88-90;
gives bust of Sir Walter Scott to Stirling, 157;
lays corner stone of Carnegie Library in Dunfermline, 211;
death of, 212, 213;
advice to Matthew Arnold, 299.
Carnegie, Margaret, daughter of A.C., born, 217.
Carnegie, Thomas Morrison, brother of A.C., 25;
a favorite of Col. Piper, 118, 119;
interested in iron-making, 130;
friendship with Henry Phipps, 132;
marries Lucy Coleman, 149;
death of, 212, 213.
Carnegie, William, father of A.C., 2;
a damask weaver, 8, 12, 13, 25, 30;
a radical republican, 11;
liberal in theology, 22, 23;
works in a cotton factory in Allegheny City, 34;
one of the founders of a library in Dunfermline, 48;
a sweet singer, 52;
shy and reserved, 62;
one of the most lovable of men, 63;
death of, 63, 77.
"Carnegie," the wood-and-bronze yacht, 260, 261.
Carnegie Brothers & Co., 129, 225, 226.
Carnegie Corporation of New York, 290 _n._
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 286 _n._
Carnegie Endowment for the Advancement of Learning, 268.
Carnegie Hero Fund, 262-66.
Carnegie Institute at Pittsburgh, 259, 348.
Carnegie Institution, 259, 260.
Carnegie, Kloman & Co., 196, 197.
Carnegie, McCandless & Co., 201.
Carnegie, Phipps & Co., 226.
Carnegie Relief Fund, for Carnegie workmen, 266.
Carnegie Steel Company, 256.
Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, trustees of, 269;
duties of, 270, 271.
Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, 290 _n._
Carnegie Veteran Association, 291, 292.
"Cavendish" (Henry Jones), anecdote of, 315.
Central Transportation Company, 159, 161.
Chamberlain, Joseph, 326, 327, 356.
Chemistry, value of, in iron manufacture, 181, 182, 223.
Chicago, "dizzy on cult," 305, 306.
Chili, quarrel with, 350-53.
Chisholm, Mr., Cleveland iron manufacturer, 184.
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, 355, 356, 360.
Clemens, Samuel L., _see_ Twain, Mark.
Cleveland, Frances, Library at Wellesley College, 275.
Cleveland, President, 283;
and tariff revision, 147.
Cluny Castle, Scotland, 217;
Mr. Blaine at, 344.
Coal-washing, introduced into America by George Lauder, 144.
Cobbett, William, 4.
Coke, manufacture of, 144, 145, 221.
Coleman, Lucy, afterwards Mrs. Thomas Carnegie, 149.
Coleman, William, interested in oil wells, 136-40;
and in coke, 144;
manufacturer of steel rails, 186;
anecdote of, 192;
sells out to Mr. Carnegie, 202.
Columbia University, 274 _n._
Confucius, quoted, 50, 52, 340.
Constant, Baron d'Estournelles de, 286.
Conway, Moncure D., Autobiography quoted, 274.
Cooeperative store, 250.
Corn Law agitation, the, 8.
Cornell University, salaries of professors, 268.
Cowley, William, 46.
Cremer, William Randall, receives Nobel Prize for promotion of peace,
283, 284 _n._
Cresson Springs, Mr. Carnegie's summer home in the Alleghanies, 213,
307.
Cromwell, Oliver, 15.
Crystal Palace, London, 143.
Curry, Henry M., 181;
becomes a partner of Mr. Carnegie, 201.
Cyclops Mills, 133, 134.
Damask trade in Scotland, 2, 8, 12, 13.
Dawes, Anna L., _How we are Governed_, 327.
Dennis, Prof. F.S., 213, 214.
Dickinson College, Conway Hall at, 274.
Disestablishment of the English Church, 329.
Dodds process, the, for carbonizing the heads of iron rails, 186.
Dodge, William E., 260.
Donaldson, Principal, of St. Andrews University, 273.
Douglas, Euphemia (Mrs. Sloane), 29.
Drexel, Anthony, 175, 205.
Dunfermline, birthplace of Mr. Carnegie, 2, 6;
a radical town, 10;
libraries in, 48;
revisited, 110-12, 157;
gives Mr. Carnegie the freedom of the town, 210;
Carnegie Library in, 211;
confers freedom of the town on Mrs. Carnegie, 271.
Dunfermline Abbey, 6, 7, 17, 18, 26, 27, 111.
Durrant, President, of the Union Pacific Railway, 159.
Eads, Capt. James B., 119, 120.
Edgar Thomson Steel Company, 188, 189, 201, 202.
Education, compulsory, 34.
Edwards, "Billy," 249, 250.
Edwards, Passmore, 330.
Elgin, Earl of, and Trust for the Universities of Scotland, 269-72,
313, 314.
Elkins, Sen. Stephen B., and Mr. Blaine, 344, 345, 352, 359.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, anecdote of, 335.
Endorsing notes, 173, 174.
Erie Canal, the, 29, 30.
Escanaba Iron Company, 194-97, 220.
Evans, Captain ("Fighting Bob"), as government inspector, 199.
Evarts, William M., 336 _n._
Fahnestock, Mr., Pittsburgh financier, 41.
Farmer, President, of Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad Co., 5.
Ferguson, Ella (Mrs. Henderson), 25.
Ferro-manganese, manufacture of, 220.
Fleming, Marjory, 20.
Flower, Governor Roswell P., and the tariff, 147, 148.
Forbes, Gen. John, Laird of Pittencrieff, 188.
Franciscus, Mr., freight agent at Pittsburgh, 72.
Franciscus, Mrs., 80.
Franklin, Benjamin, and St. Andrews University, 272;
quoted, 340.
Frick, Henry C., 222.
Frick Coke Company, 222, 226.
Fricke, Dr., chemist at the Lucy Furnace, 182.
Frissell, Hollis B., of Hampton Institute, 277.
Garrett, John W., President of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, 125-29.
General Education Board, 274.
Germany, and the Philippines, 365;
Emperor William, 366-71.
Gilder, Richard Watson, poem by, 262, 263;
manager of the Literary Dinner, 292, 293;
on Mr. Carnegie, 293 _n._, 340 _n._
Gilman, Daniel C., first president of the Carnegie Institution, 260.
Gladstone, W.E., letter from, 233;
and Matthew Arnold, 298;
Mr. Carnegie and, 309, 327-31;
his library, 318;
devout and sincere, 319;
anecdote of, 320;
and J.G. Blaine, 321;
and John Morley, 325.
Glass, John P., 54, 55.
God, each stage of civilization creates its own, 75.
Gorman, Senator Arthur P., and the tariff, 147, 148.
_Gospel of Wealth, The_, published, 255.
Gould, Jay, 152.
Grant, Gen. U.S., and Secretary Stanton, 106;
some characteristics of, 107;
unjustly suspected, 108.
Greeley, Horace, 68, 81.
Grey, Earl, trustee of Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, 290 and _n._
Hague Conference, 283, 284.
Haldane, Lord Chancellor, error as to British manufactures, 331.
Hale, Eugene, visits Mr. Carnegie, 216.
Hale, Prof. George E., of the Mount Wilson Observatory, 261.
Halkett, Sir Arthur, killed at Braddock's defeat, 187, 188.
Hamilton College, Elihu Root Foundation at, 275.
Hampton Institute, 276.
Hanna, Senator Mark, 233, 234, 359;
Chair in Western Reserve University named for, 275.
Harcourt, Sir William Vernon, 312.
Harris, Joel Chandler, 295.
Harrison, President Benjamin, opens Carnegie Hall at Allegheny City,
259, 347;
his nomination, 344, 345;
dispute with Chili, 350-53;
the Behring Sea question, 350, 353-55.
Hartman Steel Works, 226.
Hawk, Mr., of the Windsor Hotel, New York, 150.
Hay, Secretary John, comment on Lincoln, 101, 102;
visits Mr. Carnegie, 216;
chairman of directors of Carnegie Institution, 260;
Library, at Brown University, 275;
as Secretary of State, 358;
the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, 359;
the Senate his _bete noire_, 360, 361.
Hay, John, of Allegheny City, 34-37.
Head-ication versus Hand-ication, 4.
Henderson, Ebenezer, 5.
Henderson, Ella Ferguson, 25, 55.
Hero Fund, 262-66.
Hewitt, Abram S., 260.
Higginson, Maj. F.L., 260.
Higginson, Col. Thomas Wentworth, 150.
Hill, David Jayne, on the German Hero Fund, 263, 264.
Hogan, Maria, 70.
Hogan, Uncle, 36, 77.
Holls, G.F.W., and the Hague Conference, 284.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, and the Matthew Arnold memorial, 307, 308.
Homestead Steel Mills, consolidated with Carnegie Brothers & Co., 225,
226;
strike at, 228-39;
address of workmen to Mr. Carnegie, 257.
Hughes, Courtney, 58.
Huntington, Collis P., 205.
Ignorance, the main root of industrial trouble, 240.
_In the Time of Peace_, by Richard Watson Gilder, 262, 263.
Ingersoll, Col. Robert G., 210, 300.
Integrity, importance of, in business, 172.
Ireland, Mr. Carnegie's freedom tour in, 314 _n._, 316.
Irish Home Rule, 327.
Irwin, Agnes, receives doctor's degree from St. Andrews University,
272, 273.
Isle of Wight, 215.
Jackson, Andrew, and Simon Cameron, 104, 105.
Jewett, Thomas L., President of the Panhandle Railroad, 117.
Jones, Henry ("Cavendish"), anecdote of, 315.
Jones, ---- ("The Captain"), 202, 204, 241, 242, 369;
prefers large salary to partnership, 203.
_Just by the Way_, poem on Mr. Carnegie, 238.
Kaiser Wilhelm, and Mr. Carnegie, 366-71.
Katte, Walter, 123.
Keble, Bishop, godfather of Matthew Arnold, 298.
Kelly, Mr., chairman of blast-furnaces committee, 241-43.
Kennedy, Julian, 220.
Kenyon College, gift to, 106;
Stanton Chair of Economics, 275.
Keokuk, Iowa, 154.
Keystone Bridge Works, 116, 122-28, 176.
Keystone Iron Works, 130.
Kilgraston, Scotland, 215, 216.
Kind action never lost, 85, 86.
King Edward VII, letter from, 264, 265, 326.
Kloman, Andrew, partner with Mr. Carnegie, 130, 178, 179;
a great mechanic, 131, 134;
in bankruptcy, 194-96.
Knowledge, sure to prove useful, 60.
Knowles, James, on Tennyson, 337, 338.
Koethen, Mr., choir leader, 51.
Labor, some problems of, 240-54.
Lang, Principal, 272.
Lauder, George, uncle of A.C., 12, 28, 113, 287;
teaches him history, 15-17;
and recitation, 20.
Lauder, George, cousin of A.C., 8, 17;
develops coal-washing machinery, 144, 223.
Lauder Technical College, 9, 15.
Lehigh University, Mr. Carnegie gives Taylor Hall, 266.
Lewis, Enoch, 91.
Libraries, founded by Mr. Carnegie, 47, 48, 259.
Library, public, usefulness of, 47.
Lincoln, Abraham, some characteristics of, 101;
second nomination sought, 104, 105.
Linville, H.J., partner of Mr. Carnegie, 116, 120.
Literature, value of a taste for, 46.
Lloyd, Mr., banker at Altoona, 87.
Lombaert, Mr., general superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
63, 66, 67, 73.
Lucy Furnace, the, erected, 178;
in charge of Henry Phipps, 181;
enlarged, 183;
gift from the workmen in, 257, 258.
Lynch, Rev. Frederick, 285.
Mabie, Hamilton Wright, quoted, 113.
McAneny, George, 277.
McCandless, David, 78, 186.
McCargo, David, 42, 49, 69.
McCullough, J.N., 173, 175.
MacIntosh, Mr., Scottish furniture manufacturer, 24.
McKinley, President William, 358;
and the Panama Canal, 359;
and the Spanish War, 361-65.
McLuckie, Burgomaster, and Mr. Carnegie, 235-37.
McMillan, Rev. Mr., Presbyterian minister, 74-76.
Macdonald, Sir John, and the Behring Sea troubles, 354, 355.