By Eric P. Zahren, Executive Director Carnegie Hero Fund Commission Gentlemen, we live in a heroic age. Andrew Carnegie’s Deed of Trust establishing the Hero Fund in 1904 opens with …
Michael J. Thanos, 22, of Chesterton, Ind., the son and grandson of Carnegie Medal awardees, is a senior at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., where he is studying aviation flight …
Representatives from six of the hero funds established by Andrew Carnegie more than a century ago met in The Hague, Netherlands, in early October 2016. Nine of the 11 original …
Ashley Marie Aldridge lives near a passenger rail track in Auburn, Ill., and on Sept. 15 last year saw a 75-year-old man attempting to negotiate a track crossing in his …
Larry J. Koos, left, of La Motte, Iowa, is a Jackson County, Iowa, supervisor, and it was at a supervisors meeting on Sept. 9, 2014, that he charged after a …
Neil Jones, Sr., right, of Binghamton, N.Y., was at his job as a hospital valet supervisor when he helped to save a Johnson City, N.Y., police officer from an armed …
Andrew Baugh, second from left, of Mason City, Ill., was presented his Carnegie Medal in late August 2016 at the home of the young man he rescued, Chase W. McDermand, …
Calindo C. Fletcher, Jr., played football for Buckhorn High School, New Market, Ala., and it was on the same football field that his family was presented his Carnegie Medal, awarded …
By contemporary accounts, the visit of Andrew Carnegie and his wife, Louise, and daughter, Margaret, to Santa Cruz, Calif., on March 11, 1910, was thoroughly enjoyed by both the …
Robert Seth Ludington, Kenya D. Betty, and Jacob D. Kirinovic saved Dorothy J. Bell from burning, Hale, Michigan, August 8, 2014. Bell, 79, was in the kitchen of her one-story …
Leyton Page helped to save Jacob W. Morris and John W. Morgan from drowning, Bush, Louisiana, March 28, 2015. Jacob, 8, and his brother, John, 6, were thrown into the …
Isbel Jimenez saved Jeannette Marshall from burning, Breckenridge, Texas, September 16, 2015. Marshall, 59, was in her mobile home at night after a fire broke out in its living room. …
Kevin Scott Johnson II died attempting to save Willa M. Pennington from drowning, Flat Gap, Kentucky, July 13, 2015. Pennington, 74, was inside her mobile home as severe thunderstorms moved …
Keoni Bowthorpe rescued Colin W. Cook from a shark attack, Haleiwa, Hawaii, October 9, 2015. Cook, 25, was surfing in the Pacific Ocean at a point about 600 feet from …
Matthew R. Bartholomew helped to save Joyce A. Byrd from drowning, Midlothian, Virginia, February 16, 2015. Byrd, 65, remained in the driver’s seat of a sedan after it left the …
Christian E. Euchenhofer rescued Roger G. Quinn from burning, Greene, New York, September 1, 2014. Quinn, 70, was piloting a light-sport airplane when it crash-landed shortly after take-off at a …
Brannon D. Heathman helped to rescue Karen S. Murdock and Jill D. C. Watkins from burning, Oceanside, California, December 16, 2014. Murdock, 62, and Watkins, 53, lay unconscious on the …
Adrian Gallo and Joe L. Serrano saved Lyndelle H. Watkins from burning, Tucson, Arizona, May 16, 2015. Watkins, 69, was the driver of a pickup truck that was struck head …
Patrick J. Hopkins IV helped to save Kimberly Y. Foster from burning, Gainesville, Florida, June 26, 2015. Foster, 30, was in a bedroom of her family’s one-story house after fire …
Dinah Keturia McGee died attempting to rescue Linda F. Inscore from burning, Greeneville, Tennessee, July 10, 2015. Inscore, 63, who was infirm, was in her bedroom in the one-story house …
