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Andrew Carnegie was born in in Scotland to a poor weaver who brought his family to America in 1848. -
By the time he was eighteen he was working in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as the private secretary to a railroad official named Thomas Alexander Scott. -
by 1899, when he consolidated into the Carnegie Steel Company he controlled a quarter of American iron and steel production. -
In 1911 he 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.