World's Wealthiest of all time

ulfie · 10-01-2003

One of Andrew Carnegie's old homes is about 10 minutes from where I live. It's now a rehab hospital so that should tell you something about the size of it. I think the original home had 80 rooms. The Carnegie foundation still to this day has billions of dollars that they use to fund museums, the arts, libraries, etc.

"Carnegie Foundation

The seed was shown for the greatest endowment in American history, when a mere messenger boy named Andrew Carnegie a Scottish immigrant raised in Allegheny, gained access to the 400 hundred volume library of Colonel James Anderson. By the time of his death he had endowed $ 65 million to erect and fill 2,811 Free Libraries in communities across the United States and other English speaking countries.
Of these , 1,946 were located in the United States - 660 in Britain and Ireland , 156 in Canada. A hand full of libraries were also scattered in places like New Zealand, the West Indies and even Fiji."

10-01-2003	#6
ulfie Members Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 1,143	One of Andrew Carnegie's old homes is about 10 minutes from where I live. It's now a rehab hospital so that should tell you something about the size of it. I think the original home had 80 rooms. The Carnegie foundation still to this day has billions of dollars that they use to fund museums, the arts, libraries, etc. "Carnegie Foundation The seed was shown for the greatest endowment in American history, when a mere messenger boy named Andrew Carnegie a Scottish immigrant raised in Allegheny, gained access to the 400 hundred volume library of Colonel James Anderson. By the time of his death he had endowed $ 65 million to erect and fill 2,811 Free Libraries in communities across the United States and other English speaking countries. Of these , 1,946 were located in the United States - 660 in Britain and Ireland , 156 in Canada. A hand full of libraries were also scattered in places like New Zealand, the West Indies and even Fiji." __________________