Andrew Carnegie

By enmaserrano5061

  • 1835

    1835
    Carnegie is born in Dunfermline,Scotland.

  • 1848

    1848
    Carnegie family emigrates to America.

  • 1848

    1848
    Get his first job as a bobbin boy in a textile mill at the age of 19.

  • 1849

    1849
    Carnegie gets a job as a messenger boy in a telegraph office.

  • 1853

    1853
    Carnegie works at Pennsylvania Railroad: he got paid $35 per month.

  • 1856

    1856
    Invests in sleeping cars for 17.50 and got a retuen of $5,000 annually.

  • 1875

    1875
    Opens his first steel plant, The Edgar Thompson Steel Works, in Braddock Pennsylvania.

  • 1883

    1883
    Buys the homestead works from a rivaling company.

  • 1887

    1887
    Carnegie marries Louise Whitfield.

  • 1889

    1889
    Publishes a book called "Gospel of Wealth."

  • 1889

    1889
    Controversy on the Johnstown Flood.

  • 1892

    1892
    Homestead works goes through a strike and Homestead Act.

  • 1897

    1897
    His only child, named Margret Carnegie.

  • 1901

    1901
    Bought out by J.P. Morgan for $480 millon. Carnegie becomes the richest man on Earth.

  • 1919

    1919
    Dies at Shadowbrook, in Lenox, Massachusetts.