The life of Andrew Carnegie

By Jailyn Pickering

  • Birth of Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie was born in Scotland to a poor weaver who
    brought his family to America.

  • Andrew makes his own company

    Carnegie left the railroad
    and started his own company making railroad bridges from iron.

  • Gained control of a quarter of American iron and steel

    Eight
    years later he started his first steel mill, and by 1899, when he consolidated
    into the Carnegie Steel Company he controlled a quarter of American iron
    and steel production.