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Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25, 1835, in Dunfermline, Scotland, to Margaret and Will Carnegie.
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Life of Andrew Carnegie, a steel business man, philanthropist, and one of the wealthiest men in the 1800's.
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At the age of 13, Carnegie came to the United States with his family. They moved to Allegheny, Pennsylvania where Carnegie had to work in a factory to support his family only earning $1.20 a week.
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Carnegie became a telegraph messenger boy of the Ohio Telegraph Company location in Pittsburgh earning $2.50 per week.
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Carnegie took a job at the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1853 where he worked as the assistant and telegrapher one of the railroads's top officals,Thomas Scott. This is where he learned about the railroad industry and about business in general.
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Carnegie is promoted to superintendent in the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
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War between the Union and the Confederate States of America . Which resulted in the death of over he death of more than 620,000 and wounding of millions.
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He leaves the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. in 1865 to focus on his other business interests, whcih included the Keystone Bridge Company.
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Carnegie opens his first steel plant in Braddock, Pennsylvania.
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Carnegie merged with Henry Clay Frick of the Frick Coke Company, his main supplier of coke coal, in order to maximize profits. Frick becomes one of Carnegie's most important business associates and is a key figure in his life.
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Thomas Scott dies. Leaving Carnegie without his childhood mentor and friend.
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Carnegie got typhoid fever, and recovered, but Carnegie’s brother and mother died of pneumonia.
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Carnegie marries Louise Whitfield in a small private wedding at the Whitfield home. When Carnegie was 51 and Louise was 30.
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When Carnegie's company tried to lower wages at a Carnegie Steel plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania, the employees were enraged. They refused to work and sparked what is now known as the Homestead Strike of 1892.
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Carnegie sells his steel company to J.P. Morgan for
$480 million which allows Morgan to create US Steel, and makes Carnegie the richest man in the world. -
A global war centred in Europe.
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Carnegie died on August 11, 1919, in Lenox, Massachusetts, of bronchial pneumonia.
