Saturday, February 25, 2012

Opening paragraphs..........

     He was born in the upstairs room of a tiny gray stone weaver's cottage in Dunfermline, Scotland, to Margaret Carnegie, the daughter of Tom Morrison, the town's outspoken radical, and William Carnegie, a handloom weaver of fine damasks.  He would be called Andrew, following the Scottish custom of naming the firstborn son after the father's father.  Mag Carnegie, unable to afford a midwife, had called on her pregnant girlhood friend Ailie Fargee for assistance.  A few months later, when Ailie's time came, Mag was there to minister to the birth of Ailie's son, Richard.

-David Nasaw,  Andrew Carnegie

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