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1. Certificate of Incorporation of Home Trust Company
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Format: albums
- Date: [between 1899 and 1919]
- Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation of New York Records. Series VI. Other Carnegie Organizations, 1893-1981. VI.A. Home Trust Company. Box no. 3A
- 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 mone y for philanthropic activities, as well as distribute money and pensions to relatives, friends, and others as Andrew Carnegie thought appropriate. This was the beginning of Carnegie’s organized or “wholesale” philanthropy.