DR ANDREW CARNEGIE AND HIS FATHER.
Dr Andrew Carnegie told an audience at Liverpool the other day that ho had “taken to library forming because ' his Cither Jid it before him/' William Carnegio’e efforts at library founding were, an Edinburgh contemporary points out. extremely modest as compared with the work ‘of his distinguished son. In 1606 Atr Carnegie's father was a journeyman wearer dn Damfemdine. *He and another two drirera of the shuttle ; mot. and agreed to convey the books they had in then* respective homes to on© house. The combined libraries only figured out twenty relumes. The pioneers were joined by other wearers, and they agreed to tax themselves to the extent of a few pence per month and from this fund purchase new books- The little institution ultimately blossomed into the Dnnfennlino Tradesmen's Literary.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7914, 25 September 1911, Page 1
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