What Scottish-American industrialist born in 1835 funded over 3,000 libraries in 47 states?
6b802f695435d74acf86315e51aa141c
Madison Carnegie Library The Madison Carnegie Library or Madison Public Library, located at 401 Sixth Avenue, Madison, in the U.S. state of Minnesota is a public library building built in 1905 of brick with limestone trim. Its characteristic features include a columned and pedimented main entrance and a small polygonal dome on its flat roof. The structure was built with an $8,000 grant from Andrew Carnegie. This was one of over 3,000 libraries in 47 states funded by Carnegie. Local residents gave an additional $1,000 in gifts and books at its dedication on January 22, 1906. Gerhard Herriges, a contractor for public buildings in Western Minnesota, built the building for $6,216.85.
f562112a2245b7d31ceee42e68315579
Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie ( , but commonly or ; November 25, 1835August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist.
0b9e3d624f3440bad52dc00fdbd93227
John Crerar (industrialist) John Chippewa Crerar (8 March 1827 – 19 October 1889) was a wealthy American industrialist and businessman from Chicago whose investments were primarily in the railroad industry. Although he had a successful business career he is most well known for his philanthropic efforts, his activism in the Presbyterian Church, and his investment in the John Crerar Library.
cf0cad992a95ffa702bca5b198e943ae
James Woods (Canadian business executive) Sir James Woods KBE (1855 – April 25, 1941) was a Canadian industrialist and philanthropist who was knighted in 1915 for wartime industrial work and named
e8352b17b3a8eb891d848d7fc655c30e
Louis Lichtenberger Louis Lichtenberger (1835–1892) had a carriage and wagon-making shop in 19th Century Los Angeles, California, and became a wealthy landowner. He was city treasurer and a member of the Common Council, the governing body of the city.
448b3b7abd352e43fc1e442989cd8894
Andrew J. Yorty Andrew Jackson Yorty (January 4, 1832 – February 20, 1886) was an American politician and businessman.
c7af5a656c3c6fa50cae286ac7803110
John D. Rockefeller John Davison Rockefeller Sr. (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American oil industry business magnate and philanthropist. Widely considered the wealthiest American of all time and the richest person in modern history, Rockefeller was born into a large family in upstate New York and was shaped by his con man father and religious mother. His family moved several times before eventually settling in Cleveland, Ohio.
d17e06b7762689cf96a834e74dee8e80
Stephen F. Mayer Stephen F. Mayer (February 4, 1854 – August 3, 1935) was an American businessman and politician.
29fd871437bb143b782fb8ea5bc20f44
David Thomas (industrialist) David Thomas (3 November 1794 – 20 June 1882) was a native of Wales who was influential in the birth of the Industrial Revolution in the US.
1d5c3377a4fbaabd271bece2327ff813
Edward E. Ayer Edward Everett Ayer (November 16, 1841 – May 3, 1927) was an American business magnate, best remembered for the endowments of his substantial collections of books and original manuscripts from Native American and colonial-era history and ethnology, which were donated to the Newberry Library and Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Ayer had over time built an immense fortune out of supplying timber to the 19th century’s fast-growing railroad industry. However, it was a chance encounter in his youth with a book that inspired Ayer's lifelong investments of time and money that resulted one of the largest collections of historical and American literature accumulated by the early 20th century. That book was William H. Prescott’s famous "History of the Conquest of Mexico", which Ayer first read in a small library attached to a silver mine south of Tucson Ayer had been guarding as part of his military service. By his own account, he was indelibly marked by what he read and it became the foundation for his insatiable interest in Indian Americana literature.
6960e429b30d296b1725366d408b6467
Josephus Nelson Larned Josephus Nelson Larned (May 11, 1836 – August 15, 1913) was an American newspaper editor, author, librarian, and historian. As superintendent of the Young Men's Association Library, he presided over its transformation into what is now the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library.
2f1bb61eeebb7d84526bd68bd5556d81
Kurtis Froedtert Kurtis R. Froedtert (June 3, 1887 – December 6, 1951) was a United States industrialist and benefactor from Milwaukee.
52594ff624a6b2ca9fd5011367fab9f7
Cadwallader C. Washburn Cadwallader Colden Washburn (April 22, 1818May 14, 1882) was an American businessman, politician, and soldier noted for founding what would later become General Mills. A member of the Washburn family of Maine, he was a U.S. Congressman and governor of Wisconsin, and served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
6a9204dc0b281e17cde4bbb0c3c1690d
Charles W. Pavey Charles W. Pavey (November 14, 1835 – May 12, 1910) was an American businessman and politician.
9a2e9b52bea96d8f281e0d644e56f17b
Hugh McFarlane Hugh McFarlane (June 23, 1815 – August 16, 1882) was an American businessman and politician.
463c46a9a2be601f818ffec719badaf5
Tom Hunter Sir Thomas Blane Hunter (born 6 May 1961) is a Scottish businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.
a0e9db6365795581a64b83b416e922d7
Abel Godard Abel Godard (June 26, 1835 Richville, St. Lawrence County, New York – July 25, 1891) was an American lawyer, Union Army officer, manufacturer, banker and politician from New York.
4c25a3c69f6ad008685d3c86db28ee15
Hiram Sibley Hiram Sibley (February 6, 1807 – July 12, 1888), was an American industrialist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who was a pioneer of the telegraph in the United States.
1cbffcfd2e2742e767947fe3ee8fd63e
Joseph N. Pew Jr. Joseph Newton Pew Jr. (November 12, 1886 – April 9, 1963) was an American industrialist and influential member of the Republican Party.
bf7b9f52390a518b165107b1bd33d61c
Ambrose Swasey Ambrose Swasey (December 19, 1846 – June 15, 1937) was an American mechanical engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, manager, astronomer, and philanthropist. With Worcester R. Warner he co-founded the Warner & Swasey Company.
4644e11af7377d267fd49877a8e9bdec
Robert Knight (industrialist) Robert Knight (8 January 1826–26 November 1912) was a New England industrialist and philanthropist, who was a partner with his brother Benjamin Knight in B. B. & R. Knight and was one of the largest textile manufacturers in the world when he died in 1912. He co-founded the large and famous brand, Fruit of the Loom, now owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.
52e2ebf27af4dbc0c7ae492b54e6fcb1
Harris Newmark Harris Newmark (July 5, 1834 – 1916) was a Prussian-American businessman, philanthropist, and historian. Born in Löbau in Province of Saxony (now Saxony, in eastern Germany) Newmark emigrated to the United States in 1853, sailed from Europe to New York City to San Francisco, and finally settled in Los Angeles. The Newmark clan was one of the founding families of the Los Angeles area.