Louise Whitfield Carnegie (March 7, 1857 - June 24, 1946) was the wife of philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. is the 66th day of the year (67th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Andrew Carnegie (properly pronounced , but commonly or )[1] (November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-born American industrialist, businessman, and a major philanthropist. ...

Daughter of New York City merchant John D. Whitfield, Louise was born in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan. She married Carnegie in a private ceremony at her family's New York City home on April 22, 1887. She was 30; Carnegie was 51. As wedding gifts from her husband, Louise received an approximate annual income of $20,000, and a home (formerly owned by Collis Potter Huntington) at 5 West 51st Street. Gramercy Park (sometimes misspelled as Grammercy) is a small, fenced-in private park in the Gramercy neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan, accessible only to residents of certain townhouses in the area who have keys to the park. ... Collis Potter Huntington (October 22, 1821 - August 13, 1900) was one of the Big Four of western railroading (along with Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins and Charles Crocker) who built the Southern Pacific Railroad and other major interstate train lines. ...

Louise gave birth to the couple's only child Margaret in 1897. Margaret Carnegie Miller (1897-1990) was the only child of industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and heir to the Carnegie fortune. ...

After Carnegie's death Louise continued making charitable contributions to organizations including American Red Cross, the Y.W.C.A., the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, numerous World War II relief funds, and $100,000 to the Union Theological Seminary. She spent her summers at Skibo Castle. A WWII-era poster encouraged American women to volunteer for the Red Cross as part of the war effort. ... The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York City is the seat of the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... The tower at Union Theological Seminary Birds-eye view at Claremont Ave. ... Skibo Castle Andrew Carnegie at Skibo, 1914 Skibo Castle is located to the west of Dornoch in Sutherland, Highland, Scotland overlooking the Dornoch Firth. ...

In 1934 she was honored with the Gold Medal of the Pennsylvania Society. The Pennsylvania Society is a non-profit, non-political organization founded in 1899 and incorporated in 1903, headquartered in Sellersville, Pennsylvania, which has a membership roster including many leaders of Pennsylvania business, educational, civic, and political organizations. ...

She died at the age of 89 and was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, in Sleepy Hollow, New York. Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is the resting place of numerous famous figures, including Washington Irving, whose story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is set in the adjacent Old Dutch Burying Ground. ... Sleepy Hollow is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. ...

References

• Krass, Peter. Carnegie. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.
• Nasaw, David. Andrew Carnegie. New York: Penguin Press, 2006.
• "Mr. Carnegie's Wedding" The New York Times, April 23, 1887.
• "Mrs. Carnegie Dies; Steel Man's Widow", The New York Times, June 25, 1946.
• "Rites in Home for Mrs. Carnegie", The New York Times, June 28, 1946.

is the 113th day of the year (114th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Further reading

• Hendrick, Burton Jesse, and Daniel Henderson. Louise Whitfield Carnegie; The Life of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie. New York: Hastings House, 1950.