Louise Whitfield Carnegie
Submitted by Alison McCall on 11 September 2012 - 7:50pm
Revised: 11 September 2012 - 7:56pm — Alison McCall
Other names:
Her maiden name was Whitfield.
Dates:
7 Mar 1857-24 June 1946
Born in Manhattan, Louise Whitfield married Andrew Carnegie in 1887. She was twenty-one years younger than him. The couple had one child, Margaret. After her husband's death in 1919 she devcoted her life to philanthropy. She died in 1946 and is buried in New York.