Andrew Carnegie

Birth of Andrew Carnegie

Nov 25, 1835

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

Moving

1848

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

Donation

1911

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

Aug 11, 1919

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