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Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was born in 1835 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. -
Andrew´s Company
In 1865 Carnegie left the railroad
and started his own company making railroad bridges from iron. Eight
years later he started his first steel mill, and by 1899, when he consolidated
into the Carnegie Steel Company he controlled a quarter of American iron
and steel production. -
After The Retirement
He devoted the last
eighteen years of his life to using his wealth for the public good. 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