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Carnegie was born to a poor weaver in Scotland, in 1848 the weaver brought his family to America.
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Carnegie worked in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as a secretary to railroad official Thomas Alexander Scott, he left the railroad company in 1865.
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After his job at the railroad, he started his own company where he made railroad bridges out of iron. 8 Years after the creation of his company, he made his own steel mill, and controlled a quarter of all of America's steel.