The Life of Andrew Carnegie

By KylieLeadenham

  • Birth of Andrew Carnegie

    Birth of Andrew Carnegie
    Andrew Carnegie was born in 1835 in Scotland to a poor weaver

  • Andrew Carnegie's Family

    Andrew Carnegie's Family
    The poor weaver brought Carnegie's family to America in 1848.

  • Carnegie's Occupations

    Carnegie's Occupations
    By the time he was eighteen, Carnegie 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.