The Life of Andrew Carnagie

By katherine_s
  • 1835 BCE

    1835

    1835
    Andrew Carnegie was born in 1835 in Scotland

  • 1848

    1848
    Carnegie brought his family to America in 1848.

  • 1853

    1853
    By the time he was eighteen he was
    working in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as the private secretary to a railroad
    official named Thomas Alexander Scott.

  • 1865

    1865
    Carnegie left the railroad
    and started his own company making railroad bridges from iron.

  • 1873

    1873
    Andrew Carnegie started his first steel mill.

  • 1899

    1899
    Andrew Carnegie consolidated
    into the Carnegie Steel Company he controlled a quarter of American iron
    and steel production.

  • 1901

    1901
    Andrew carnagie retired from his field of work.

  • 1911

    1911
    Carnegie
    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.

  • 1919

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