Andrew Carnegie

  • Birth of Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie was born in 1835 in Scotland to a poor weaver.
  • Moving

    Moving

    Weaver moved his family to the United States, when Andrew was 12 years old
  • Donation

    Donation

    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.
  • Death

    Death

    Carnegie died on August 11, 1919, in Lenox, Massachusetts, at his Shadow Brook estate, of bronchial pneumonia

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