Abstract
When the towns of Chartiers and Mansfield legally incorporated into the borough of Carnegie in 1894, their people chose a name that evoked not only wealth and industrial power, but also Andrew Carnegie’s well-known passion for uplifting the common citizen. "Mine be it to have contributed to the enlightenment and the joys of the mind, to the things of the spirit, to all that tends to bring into the lives of the toilers of Pittsburgh sweetness and light," he had written in his 1895 address on the dedication of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Six years after that dedication, the borough that named itself for Carnegie would celebrate the opening of its own magnificent building: the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall.
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