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===Death=== [[File:Andrew Carnegie Gravesite.JPG|thumb|upright|Carnegie's grave at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in [[Sleepy Hollow, New York]]]] Carnegie died on August 11, 1919, in [[Lenox, Massachusetts]], at his [[Shadow Brook Farm Historic District|Shadow Brook]] estate, of [[bronchial pneumonia]].<ref>{{cite news |date=August 12, 1919 |title=Andrew Carnegie Dies Of Pneumonia In His 84th Year |work=The New York Times |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/08/12/118155506.pdf |url-status=live |access-date=August 1, 2008 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/08/12/118155506.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |quote=Andrew Carnegie died at Shadow Brook of bronchial pneumonia at 7:10 o'clock this morning.}}</ref><ref name="Krass">Krass (2002), Ch. "The Carnegie Legacy".</ref> He had already given away $350,695,653 (approximately US${{Formatprice|5980000000}} in {{Inflation-year|US}} dollars)<ref>{{cite web |title=CPI Inflation Calculator |url=https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=350695&year1=191901&year2=202201 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231231152758/https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=350695&year1=191901&year2=202201 |archive-date=December 31, 2023 |access-date=December 24, 2018 |publisher=Bureau of Labor Statistics}}</ref> of his wealth. After his death, his last $30 million was given to foundations, charities, and to pensioners.<ref>{{cite news |title=Carnegie's Estate, At Time Of Death, About $30,000,000 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/08/29/103460462.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/08/29/103460462.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live |work=The New York Times |date=August 29, 1919 |access-date=August 1, 2008}}</ref> He was buried at [[Sleepy Hollow Cemetery]] in [[Sleepy Hollow, New York]]. The grave site is located on the Arcadia Hebron plot of land at the corner of Summit Avenue and Dingle Road. Carnegie is buried only a few yards away from union organizer [[Samuel Gompers]], another important figure of industry in the [[Gilded Age]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sleepyhollowcemetery.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/sleepy-hollow-cemetery-map.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110209080936/http://sleepyhollowcemetery.org/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/sleepy-hollow-cemetery-map.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 9, 2011 |title=Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Map |year=2009 |publisher=Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Historic Fund |access-date=April 19, 2010 }}</ref>
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