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Birth of Andrew Carnegie
Andrew was born in 1835 in Scotland to a poor weaver who brought his family to America in 1848. -
Building his legacy
By the time he was eighteen he was working in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as the private secretary to a railroad official named Thomas Alexander Scott. In 1865 Carnegie left the railroad and started his own company making railroad bridges from iron. -
The legacy
In 1911 he gave a gift of $125 million after he retired to establish the Carnegie Corporation of America which provides funding to institutions and organizations that conduct research on education and public affairs.