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Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25, 1835, in a town called Dunfermline, Scotland.
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Carnegie moved when he was 13 to a house in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. At 13 he went to work at a factory earning $1.20 a week. Which was a lot back then.
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He started as a messenger boy and ended up at 1853 as someones secretary.
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His fathers death lead to Carnegie wanting to reading, theater, and music. He wanted to have an education.
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He made his first investment of $500 in Adams Express, which helped him have a huge start in his work.
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Andrew decided he wanted to leave the railroad company. So he could achieve his dream of working at some place like Keystone Bridge Company.
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Carnegie knew that iron would soon be replaced with steel and off course it did when he made his company in 1874
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In 1889 he built Carnegie Steel Corporation. It was the largest out of all other steel corporations in the world.
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Some people thought that the success was because of the expenses of the company. They tried to lower it but it was unsuccessful.
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He sold Carnegie Steel to a banker named John Pierpont Morgan. He sold the company for $480 million dollars, but after words gave away over $350 million.
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He created Carnegie Foundation so he could teach people how to work in his factory the right way.
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He died August 11, 1919, Lenox, Massachusetts. He died to a decease called bronchial pneumonia. He died when he was 83 years old.
