Andrew Carnegie Timeline

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  • 1835

    Andrew Carnegie was born in 1835 in Scotland to a poor weaver.

  • 1865

    Carnegie left the railroad
    and started his own company making railroad bridges from iron.

  • 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.