The Life of Andrew Carnagie

By katherine_s
  • 1835
    1835 BCE

    1835

    Andrew Carnegie was born in 1835 in Scotland
  • 1848

    1848

    Carnegie brought his family to America in 1848.
  • 1853

    1853

    By the time he was eighteen he was
    working in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as the private secretary to a railroad
    official named Thomas Alexander Scott.
  • 1865

    1865

    Carnegie left the railroad
    and started his own company making railroad bridges from iron.
  • 1873

    1873

    Andrew Carnegie started his first steel mill.
  • 1899

    1899

    Andrew Carnegie consolidated
    into the Carnegie Steel Company he controlled a quarter of American iron
    and steel production.
  • 1901

    1901

    Andrew carnagie retired from his field of work.
  • 1911

    1911

    Carnegie
    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.
  • 1919

    1919

    Carnegie died in Lenox, Massachusetts, at his Shadow Brook estate, of Bronchial Pneumonia.