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Andrew Carnegie was born
Andrew Carnegie was born in 1835 in Scotland to a poor weaver. -
Andrew Carnegie went to America
Andrew Carnegie and his family were brought to America in 1848. -
Andrew Carnegie was working in Pittsburgh
By the time he was eighteen he was working in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as the private secretary to a railroad official named Thomas Alexander Scott. -
Andrew Carnegie left the railroad company
In 1865 Carnegie left the railroad and started his own company making railroad bridges from iron. -
Andrew Carnegie started his first steel mill
Eight years later he started his first steel mill. -
Andrew Carnegie controlled a quarter of the production
By 1899, when he consolidated into the Carnegie Steel Company he controlled a quarter of American iron
and steel production.