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Carnegie is born in Dunfermline,Scotland.
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Carnegie family emigrates to America.
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Get his first job as a bobbin boy in a textile mill at the age of 19.
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Carnegie gets a job as a messenger boy in a telegraph office.
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Carnegie works at Pennsylvania Railroad: he got paid $35 per month.
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Invests in sleeping cars for 17.50 and got a retuen of $5,000 annually.
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Opens his first steel plant, The Edgar Thompson Steel Works, in Braddock Pennsylvania.
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Buys the homestead works from a rivaling company.
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Carnegie marries Louise Whitfield.
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Publishes a book called "Gospel of Wealth."
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Controversy on the Johnstown Flood.
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Homestead works goes through a strike and Homestead Act.
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His only child, named Margret Carnegie.
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Bought out by J.P. Morgan for $480 millon. Carnegie becomes the richest man on Earth.
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Dies at Shadowbrook, in Lenox, Massachusetts.
