Religion Presbyterian Spouse(s) Roswell Miller | Name Margaret Miller Uncles Thomas M. Carnegie | |
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Full Name Margaret Carnegie Children Margaret Morrison Miller, Louise Carnegie Miller, Barbara Miller, Roswell Miller III Grandparents Margaret Morrison Carnegie, William Carnegie Similar People Andrew Carnegie, Louise Whitfield Carnegie, Thomas M Carnegie | ||
Margaret Carnegie Miller (March 30, 1897 – April 11, 1990) was the only child of industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and heiress to the Carnegie fortune.
Biography
Margaret Cameron Carnegie was born March 30, 1897 in Manhattan, New York City to Carnegie and Louise Whitfield, whom Carnegie married when he was 51 years old.
Margaret Carnegie married Roswell Miller, Jr., at the Carnegie family home at 2 East 91st Street in New York on April 22, 1919, just four months before her father's death. Officiating at the wedding were Rev. William Pierson Merril, pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church (New York City), where Margaret and Mrs. Carnegie were members, and Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin, pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church where Mr. Carnegie was a member.
From 1934 to 1973 Margaret was a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, a grant-making foundation. The foundation was established by her father in 1911. From 1973 until her death she was an honorary lifetime trustee.
Margaret Carnegie's marriage to Roswell Miller ended in divorce. Miller had four children (Louise, Roswell III, Barbara, and Margaret).
She died on April 11, 1990, at her home in Fairfield, Connecticut, at the age of 93.