The Life of Andrew Carnegie

By Jace M

  • Andrew Carnegie was born

    Andrew Carnegie was born in 1835 in Scotland to a poor weaver.

  • Andrew Carnegie went to America

    Andrew Carnegie and his family were brought to America in 1848.

  • Andrew Carnegie was working in Pittsburgh

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

  • Andrew Carnegie left the railroad company

    In 1865 Carnegie left the railroad and started his own company making railroad bridges from iron.

  • Andrew Carnegie started his first steel mill

    Eight years later he started his first steel mill.

  • Andrew Carnegie controlled a quarter of the production

    By 1899, when he consolidated into the Carnegie Steel Company he controlled a quarter of American iron
    and steel production.