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Thomas M. Carnegie, the Glossary

Thomas Morrison Carnegie (October 2, 1843 – October 19, 1886) was a Scottish-born American industrialist.^[1]

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Allegheny Cemetery

Allegheny Cemetery is one of the largest and oldest burial grounds in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Allegheny River

The Allegheny River is a headwater stream of the Ohio River that is located in western Pennsylvania and New York in the United States.

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Allegheny, Pennsylvania

Allegheny City was a municipality that existed in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania from 1788 until it was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1907.

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Altoona, Pennsylvania

Altoona is a city in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie (November 25, 1835August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Thomas M. Carnegie and Andrew Carnegie are Businesspeople from Pittsburgh, Carnegie family, Lauder Greenway Family, People from Dunfermline and Scottish emigrants to the United States.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Barrier island

Barrier islands are a coastal landform, a type of dune system and sand island, where an area of sand has been formed by wave and tidal action parallel to the mainland coast.

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Battle of the Monongahela

The Battle of the Monongahela (also known as the Battle of Braddock's Field and the Battle of the Wilderness) took place on July 9, 1755, at the beginning of the French and Indian War at Braddock's Field in present-day Braddock, Pennsylvania, east of Pittsburgh.

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Bessemer process

The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace.

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Blast furnace

A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals, generally pig iron, but also others such as lead or copper.

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Boarding school

A boarding school is a school where pupils live within premises while being given formal instruction.

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Bond (finance)

In finance, a bond is a type of security under which the issuer (debtor) owes the holder (creditor) a debt, and is obliged – depending on the terms – to provide cash flow to the creditor (e.g. repay the principal (i.e. amount borrowed) of the bond at the maturity date as well as interest (called the coupon) over a specified amount of time).

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Braddock's Field

Braddock's Field is a historic battlefield on the banks of the Monongahela River, at Braddock, Pennsylvania, near the junction of Turtle Creek, about nine miles southeast of the "Forks of the Ohio" in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Business magnate

A business magnate, also known as an industrialist or tycoon, is a person who has achieved immense wealth through the creation or ownership of multiple lines of enterprise.

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Coke (fuel)

Coke is a grey, hard, and porous coal-based fuel with a high carbon content.

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Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865.

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Cousin

A cousin is a relative that is the child of a parent's sibling; this is more specifically referred to as a first cousin.

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Cresson, Pennsylvania

Cresson is a borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Crony capitalism

Crony capitalism, sometimes also called simply cronyism, is a pejorative term used in political discourse to describe a situation in which businesses profit from a close relationship with state power, either through an anti-competitive regulatory environment, direct government largesse, and/or corruption.

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Cumberland Island

Cumberland Island, in the southeastern United States, is the largest of the Sea Islands of Georgia.

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Cumberland Island National Seashore

Cumberland Island National Seashore preserves most of Cumberland Island in Camden County, Georgia, the largest of Georgia's Golden Isles.

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Downtown Pittsburgh

Downtown Pittsburgh, colloquially referred to as the Golden Triangle, and officially the Central Business District, is the urban downtown center of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Dunfermline

Dunfermline (Dunfaurlin, Dùn Phàrlain) is a city, parish, former Royal burgh in Fife, Scotland, from the northern shore of the Firth of Forth.

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Dungeness (Cumberland Island, Georgia)

Dungeness on Cumberland Island, Georgia, is a ruined mansion that is part of a historic district that was the home of several families significant in American history.

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East Coast of the United States

The East Coast of the United States, also known as the Eastern Seaboard, the Atlantic Coast, and the Atlantic Seaboard, is the region encompassing the coastline where the Eastern United States meets the Atlantic Ocean.

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Edgar Thomson Steel Works

The Edgar Thomson Steel Works is a steel mill in the Pittsburgh area communities of Braddock and North Braddock, Pennsylvania.

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Edward Braddock

Edward Braddock (January 1695 – 13 July 1755) was a British officer and commander-in-chief for the Thirteen Colonies during the start of the French and Indian War (1754–1763), the North American front of what is known in Europe and Canada as the Seven Years' War (1756–1763).

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Executor

An executor is someone who is responsible for executing, or following through on, an assigned task or duty.

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Fernandina Beach, Florida

Fernandina Beach is a city in northeastern Florida and the county seat of Nassau County, Florida, United States.

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Fife

Fife (Fìobha,; Fife) is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland.

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Fort Duquesne

Fort Duquesne (originally called Fort Du Quesne) was a fort established by the French in 1754, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers.

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George Lauder (industrialist)

George Lauder Jr. (November 11, 1837 – August 24, 1924) was a Scottish-American industrialist. Thomas M. Carnegie and George Lauder (industrialist) are Andrew Carnegie, Businesspeople from Pittsburgh, Carnegie family, Lauder Greenway Family, People from Dunfermline and Scottish emigrants to the United States.

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George Westinghouse

George Westinghouse Jr. (October 6, 1846 – March 12, 1914) was an American entrepreneur and engineer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who created the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry, receiving his first patent at the age of 19.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Henry Clay Frick

Henry Clay Frick (December 19, 1849 – December 2, 1919) was an American industrialist, financier, and art patron. Thomas M. Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick are Andrew Carnegie.

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Henry Phipps Jr.

Henry Phipps Jr. (September 27, 1839 – September 22, 1930) was an American entrepreneur known for his business relationship with Andrew Carnegie and involvement with the Carnegie Steel Company. Thomas M. Carnegie and Henry Phipps Jr. are Andrew Carnegie and Businesspeople from Pittsburgh.

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Homestead strike

The Homestead strike, also known as the Homestead steel strike, Homestead massacre, or Battle of Homestead, was an industrial lockout and strike that began on July 1, 1892, culminating in a battle in which strikers defeated private security agents on July 6, 1892. Thomas M. Carnegie and Homestead strike are Andrew Carnegie.

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Homewood (Pittsburgh)

Homewood is a predominantly African-American neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, officially divided into three neighborhoods: Homewood North, Homewood South and Homewood West.

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Ingot

An ingot is a piece of relatively pure material, usually metal, that is cast into a shape suitable for further processing.

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J. P. Morgan

John Pierpont Morgan (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) was an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

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James Stillman Rockefeller

James Stillman Rockefeller (June 8, 1902 – August 10, 2004) was a member of the prominent U.S. Rockefeller family. Thomas M. Carnegie and James Stillman Rockefeller are Carnegie family.

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Jay Cooke & Company

Jay Cooke & Company was a U.S. bank that operated from 1861 to 1873.

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Jefferson Davis

Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865.

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John Edgar Thomson

John Edgar Thomson (February 10, 1808 – May 27, 1874) was an American civil engineer and industrialist.

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Johnstown Flood

The Johnstown Flood, sometimes referred to locally as Great Flood of 1889, occurred on Friday, May 31, 1889, after the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam, located on the south fork of the Little Conemaugh River, upstream of the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States. Thomas M. Carnegie and Johnstown Flood are Andrew Carnegie.

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Joseph Frazier Wall

Joseph Frazier Wall (July 10, 1920 in Des Moines, Iowa – October 9, 1995) was an American historian and professor of history at Grinnell College.

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Keystone Bridge Company

The Keystone Bridge Company, founded in 1865 by Andrew Carnegie, was an American bridge building company. Thomas M. Carnegie and Keystone Bridge Company are Andrew Carnegie.

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Latrobe, Pennsylvania

Latrobe is a city in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Legatee

A legatee, in the law of wills, is any individual or organization bequeathed any portion of a testator's estate.

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Limited liability company

A limited liability company (LLC) is the United States-specific form of a private limited company.

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Lippincott's Monthly Magazine

Lippincott's Monthly Magazine was a 19th-century literary magazine published in Philadelphia from 1868 to 1915, when it relocated to New York to become McBride's Magazine.

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Lucy Furnace

Lucy Furnace was a pair of blast furnaces in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the Allegheny River in Lawrenceville.

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Margaret Copley Thaw

Margaret Copley Thaw, Comtesse de Périgny (January 9, 1877 – January 9, 1942) was an American socialite and philanthropist. Thomas M. Carnegie and Margaret Copley Thaw are Carnegie family.

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Mary Sibbet Copley

Mary Sibbet Copley Thaw (June 19, 1843 – June 9, 1929) was an American philanthropist and charity worker. Thomas M. Carnegie and Mary Sibbet Copley are burials at Allegheny Cemetery and Deaths from pneumonia in Pennsylvania.

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Micromanagement

Micromanagement is a management style characterized by such behaviors as an excessive focus on observing and controlling subordinates and obsession with details.

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Natural gas

Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane (95%) in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Norman Medal

The Norman Medal is the highest honor granted by the American Society of Civil Engineers for a technical paper that makes a definitive contribution to engineering science and is distinguished by its "practical value" and "impact on engineering practice".

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Ohio River

The Ohio River is a river in the United States.

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Panic of 1873

The Panic of 1873 was a financial crisis that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 to 1877 or 1879 in France and in Britain.

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Pennsylvania Railroad

The Pennsylvania Railroad (reporting mark PRR), legal name The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, also known as the "Pennsy", was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Philander C. Knox

Philander Chase Knox (May 6, 1853October 12, 1921) was an American lawyer, bank director and politician.

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Pig iron

Pig iron, also known as crude iron, is an intermediate good used by the iron industry in the production of steel.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Plantation complexes in the Southern United States

Plantation complexes were common on agricultural plantations in the Southern United States from the 17th into the 20th century.

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Plat

In the United States, a plat (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land.

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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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President of the Confederate States of America

The president of the Confederate States was the head of state and head of government of the Confederate States.

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Queen Anne style architecture in the United States

Queen Anne style architecture was one of a number of popular Victorian architectural styles that emerged in the United States during the period from roughly 1880 to 1910.

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Richard B. Mellon

Richard Beatty Mellon (March 19, 1858 – December 1, 1933), sometimes R.B., was a banker, industrialist, and philanthropist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Thomas M. Carnegie and Richard B. Mellon are Businesspeople from Pittsburgh.

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Richard S. Tedlow

Richard S. Tedlow is the MBA Class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he is a specialist in the history of business.

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South Fork Dam

The South Fork Dam was an earthenwork dam forming Lake Conemaugh (formerly Western Reservoir, also known as the Old Reservoir and Three Mile Dam, a misnomer), an artificial body of water near South Fork, Pennsylvania, United States.

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South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club

The South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club was a Pennsylvania corporation that operated an exclusive and secretive retreat at a mountain lake near South Fork, Pennsylvania.

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Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon with improved strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron.

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Subdivision (land)

Subdivisions are land that is divided into pieces that are easier to sell or otherwise develop, usually via a plat.

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The Gospel of Wealth

"Wealth", more commonly known as "The Gospel of Wealth", is an article written by Andrew Carnegie in June of 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich. Thomas M. Carnegie and the Gospel of Wealth are Andrew Carnegie.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_M._Carnegie

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See also

Carnegie family

Lauder Greenway Family

People from Cumberland Island

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