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CARNEGIE , a See also: - BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of See also:Allegheny See also:county, See also:Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 6 m. S.W. of See also:Pittsburg. Pop. (1900) 7330 (1816 being See also:foreign-See also:born); (1910) 10,009. It is served by the Pittsburg, See also:Cincinnati, See also:Chicago & St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis, the Pittsburg, Chartiers & Youghiogheny, and the See also:Wabash Pittsburg Terminal See also:railways, and the Pittsburg See also:street railway. Carnegie is situated in the beautiful valley of Chartiers See also:Creek, and is in one of the See also:coal and natural See also:gas districts of the See also:state. In the borough are a Carnegie library and St See also:Paul's See also:orphan See also:asylum. Among the borough's manufactures are See also:steel, See also:lead, See also:glass, ploughs and See also:enamel- and See also:tin-See also:ware. There are alkaline and lithia See also:mineral springs here. In 1894 Carnegie, named in See also:honour of See also:Andrew Carnegie, was formed by the See also:union of the boroughs Chartiers and See also:Mansfield.
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