Hattie Carnegie was a fashion entrepreneur based in New York City from the 1920s to the 1950s. She was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, as Henrietta Kanengeiser. By her early 20s, she had taken the surname Carnegie as an homage to Andrew Carnegie, the richest man in the United States at the time.
Birth Location | Vienna, Austria |
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Born | 1880-03-15 |
Died | 1956-02-22 |