Margaret Carnegie Miller


Margaret Carnegie Miller was the only child of industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and heiress to the Carnegie fortune.

Early life

Margaret Cameron Carnegie was born March 30, 1897 in Manhattan, New York City to Carnegie and Louise Whitfield, whom Carnegie married when he was 51 years old.

Philanthropy

From 1934 to 1973, Miller was a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, a grant-making foundation. The foundation was established by her father in 1911. From 1973 until her death in 1990, she was an honorary lifetime trustee.

Personal life

On April 22, 1919, just four months before her father's death, Margaret married Roswell Miller, Jr. at the Carnegie family home at 2 East 91st Street in New York City. Officiating at the wedding were Rev. William Pierson Merril, pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church, where Margaret and Mrs. Carnegie were members, and Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin, pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church where Mr. Carnegie was a member. Margaret Carnegie's marriage to Roswell Miller ended in divorce in 1953. Miller had four children.
Miller died on April 11, 1990, at her home in Fairfield, Connecticut, at the age of 93.