Certificate of Incorporation of Home Trust Company

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.)
Date: [between 1899 and 1919]
Note: Source: Home Trust Company Ledger
Language: English
Library Location: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content
Also In: Carnegie Centennial Exhibition
Copyright Status: No Copyright - United States
Persistent URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-kvy9-0t04