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Andrew Carnegie was born in Scotland, 1835.
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In 1848, Andrew Carnegie family was brought to America.
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In 1853, when Andrew Carnegie was 18 years old, he was
working in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as the private secretary to a railroad official named Thomas Alexander Scott. -
In 1865, Andrew Carnegie left the railroad and started his own company making railroad bridges from iron.
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In 1873, Andrew Carnegie started his first steel mill.
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In 1899, when he consolidated into the Carnegie Steel Company he controlled a quarter of American iron
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In 1901, Andrew retired. But in 1911, he gave $125 million to establish the Carnegie Corporation of America.