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The Birth of Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was born in 1835 in Scotland -
When Andrew Carnegie was 18
By the time he was eighteen he was working in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as the private secretary to a railroad official named Thomas Alexander Scott. -
First steel mill
he started his first steel mill, and by 1899, when he consolidated into the Carnegie Steel Company he controlled a quarter of American iron and steel production. Two years later he retired.