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Birth of Andrew Carnegie

By ryoncoe

  • Andrew Carnegie is Born.

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

  • Carnegie Brought to America.

    Carnegie Brought to America.
    The poor weaver brought his family to America in 1848.

  • Carnegie Starts His Own Company.

    Carnegie Starts His Own Company.
    In 1865 Carnegie left the railroad and started his own company making railroad bridges from iron.

  • Carnegie Controls a quarter of Iron and Steel.

    Carnegie Controls a quarter of Iron and Steel.
    By 1899, when he consolidated into the Carnegie Steel Company he controlled a quarter of American iron and steel production.

  • Carnegie Retires.

    Carnegie Retires.
    Two years later he retired
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    Andrew Carnegie Does Public Good

    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.

  • Andrew Carnegie Dies

    Andrew Carnegie Dies
    Carnegie died on in 1919, in Lenox, Massachusetts, at his Shadow Brook estate, of Bronchial Pneumonia.