Title
Certificate of Incorporation of Home Trust Company
Abstract
This ledger contains the minutes for the founding meeting of the Carnegie Home Trust Company. The Company was chartered on Oct. 22, 1901 in Hoboken, NJ. The only purpose of the Carnegie Home Trust Company was to invest, keep, and distribute the money for philanthropic activities, as well as distribute money and pensions to relatives, friends, and others as Andrew Carnegie thought appropriate. Th is was the beginning of Carnegie’s organized or “wholesale” philanthropy.
Collection Name
Carnegie Corporation of New York Records
Archival Context
Series VI. Other Carnegie Organizations, 1893-1981. VI.A. Home Trust Company. Box no. 3A
Subjects
Philanthropists; Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations; Hoboken (N.J.); Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
Format
albums
Genre
albums
Origin Information
Hoboken (N.J.), 1899.
Note
Source: Home Trust Company Ledger
Language
English
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
Copyright Status
No Copyright - United States
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-kvy9-0t04