Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 416 pages of information about Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie.

Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 416 pages of information about Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie.

Pitcairn, Robert, division superintendent, Pennsylvania Railroad, 42,
  44, 49, 66, 189.

Pittencrieff Glen, bought and given to Dunfermline, 286-89, 291.

Pittsburgh, in 1850, 39-41;
  some of its leading men, 41;
  in 1860, 93;
  later development, 348.

Pittsburgh, Bank of, 194.

Pittsburgh Locomotive Works, 115.

Pittsburgh Theater, 46, 48, 49.

Political corruption, 109.

Predestination, doctrine of, 75.

Principals’ Week, 272.

Pritchett, Dr. Henry S., president of the Carnegie Endowment for the
  Advancement of Learning, 268.

Private pension fund, 279, 280.

Problems of To-day, quoted, 40, 217.

Protective tariffs, 146-48.

Prousser, Mr., chemist, 222.

Public speaking, 210.

Pullman, George M., 157, 159;
  forms Pullman Palace Car Company, 160, 161;
  anecdote of, 162;
  becomes a director of the Union Pacific, 164.

Quality, the most important factor in success, 115, 122, 123.

Queen’s Jubilee, the (June, 1887), 320, 321.

Quintana, Manuel, President of Argentina, 346.

Railroad Pension Fund, 280.

Rawlins, Gen. John A., and General Grant, 107, 108.

Recitation, value of, in education, 20.

Reed, Speaker Thomas B., 362.

Reid, James D., and Mr. Carnegie, 59 and n.

Reid, General, of Keokuk, 154.

Republican Party, first national meeting, 68.

Riddle, Robert M., 81.

Ritchie, David, 139, 140.

Ritter, Governor, of Pennsylvania, anecdote of, 342.

Robinson, General, first white child born west of the Ohio River, 40.

Rockefeller, John D., 274.

Rogers, Henry H., 296.

Rolland School, 13.

Roosevelt, Theodore, 260;
  and Elihu Root, 275;
  John Morley on, 325;
  rejects the Arbitration Treaty, 360, 361;
  and the Philippines, 365.

Root, Elihu, 260, 286 n.;
  fund named for, at Hamilton College, 275;
  “ablest of all our Secretaries of State,” 275;
  on Mr. Carnegie, 276;
  and John Morley, 324.

Rosebery, Lord, presents Mr. Carnegie with the freedom of Edinburgh,
  215;
  relations with, 309, 310;
  handicapped by being born a peer, 310, 311.

Ross, Dr. John, 269, 271;
  aids in buying Pittencrieff Glen, 288, 289;
  receives freedom of Dunfermline, 313.

Round the World, 205, 206, 208.

Sabbath observance, 52, 53, 133.

St. Andrews University, Mr. Carnegie elected Lord Rector, 271, 273;
  confers doctor’s degree on Benjamin Franklin and on his
    great-granddaughter, 272, 273.

St. Louis Bridge, 155-57.

Salisbury, Lord, and the Behring Sea troubles, 353-55.

Sampson, ——­, financial editor of the London Times, 156.

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