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Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Gilded Age industrialist, the owner of the Carnegie Steel Company, and a major philanthropist. He epitomized the Gilded Age ideal of the self-made man, rising from poverty to become one of the wealthiest individuals in the history of the world. -
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John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller was a Gilded Age industrialist and the founder of Standard Oil. Born in New York, he was trained as a bookkeeper but entered the oil business shortly after the discovery of oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania in 1859. In 1869, he formed the Standard Oil Company, and within 15 years, Standard Oil had acquired near-monopoly control over the American petroleum industry, refining 90% of the nation's oil.