Quote from: Buc on November 18, 2020, 05:49:25 pm

Dunfermline lad who traveled to America born November 1835 -1919 industrialist and philanthropist.



His vast fortune has supported dismantling of nuclear weapons and the discovery of insulin
Millions of people benefited from his vast fortune and generosity

Libraries also have benefited from his money in many places around the world and indeed golf courses .


Andrew and Rockefeller used to play against eachother at golf for a dollar a hole trouble is both weren't very good but competitive and over the top .

Carnegie was according to reports was a brutal boss who exploited his workforce and some say he gave away some of his vast fortune to salve his troubled conscience.

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His father was a handloom weaver who marched for the working man but that seemed to come to an end with Andrew .

But to be fair to him he did promise his mother if he made it in America he'd come back and take her down in the main Street in a horse drawn carriage .
Which he did do to his mother's delight with thousands turning up to see them do all of that in the town centre .
something worth of note as a kid Andrew played in a big detached houses garden the woman came out and gave him into trouble .
His reply was I will come back and buy this house .
He never forgot that and he did .
I'm sure I may remember other stuff .

But what a man eh.?

Not a patch on you.