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Andrew Carnegie was born in Scotland in the year 1835. He was born to a poor weaver. -
In the year 1848 Andrew Carnegie's father brought him to Americ. -
When Andrew Carnegie was 18 years of age he was working in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as the private secretary to a railroad official named Thomas Alexander Scott. -
In the year 1865 Andrew Carnegie quit working for the railroad and yet created his own company making railroad bridges from iron. -
Eight years of starting his own comapny, he started his very first steel mill, and by 1899, when he combined into Carnegie Steel Company and Andrew controlled a quarter of American iron and steel production. -
In the year 1901 Carnegie retired. In the last 18 years of his very own life he was using his wealth for the public's very own good. Ten years later he donated $125,000,000 to establish the Carnegie Corporation of America
which provides funding to institutions and organizations that conduct research on education and public affairs.
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