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Scottish-born American steel magnate — who built Carnegie Steel Company (sold to J.P. Morgan as U.S. Steel in 1901 for $480M) — then gave virtually all of it away, funding 2,509 public libraries, Carnegie Hall, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Carnegie Endowment.
American industrialist who built H.C. Frick Coke Company — supplying Carnegie Steel with coke — and who as Carnegie Steel's chairman ordered the Pinkerton guards during the 1892 Homestead Strike, being shot and stabbed by Alexander Berkman; and who collected Old Masters from Duveen to create the Frick Collection.