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Andrew Carnegie was born in 1835 in Scotland to a poor weaver.
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Weaver moved his family to the United States, when Andrew was 12 years old -
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. -
Carnegie died on August 11, 1919, in Lenox, Massachusetts, at his Shadow Brook estate, of bronchial pneumonia