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Andrew was born in 1835 in Scotland to a poor weaver who
brought his family to America in 1848. -
By the time he was eighteen, he was working in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as the private secretary to a railroad official named Thomas Alexander Scott. -
By the time he was 30, Carnegie left the railroad
and started his own company making railroad bridges from iron. -
Eight years later he started his first steel mill. -
By the time he was 63, when he consolidated into the Carnegie Steel Company, he controlled a quarter of American iron and steel production. -
In 1911 he gave a gift of $125 million to establish the Carnegie Corporation of America which provides funding to institutions and organizations that conduct research on education and public affairs.