Re: ODD DESTINATIONS

[Ron Stodden <ronst@tpg.com.au>]

John Cleverdon wrote:

> * Carnegie - named after philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, in a (unsuccessful)
> attempt to get some of his money.

Philanthropist Andrew Carnegie was a Dunfermline (Scotland) weaver's son who 
became a steel industry multi-millionaire in his adopted home of the United 
States.   He did give money for library construction in the Antipodes.   One 
example was $2000 which allowed a new library building to be opened in Mildura 
in 1908.

Source: Far off in Sunlit Places - Jim Hewitson, Melbourne University Press, 
1998, ISBN 1 522 84833 8, p 110

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Ron Stodden