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His birth
Andrew Carnegie was born in 1835 in Scotland to a poor weaver who brought his family to America in 1848. -
Working at eightteen
By the time he was eighteen he was working in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as the private secretary to a railroad
official named Thomas Alexander Scott. -
He start his own busines
In 1865 Carnegie left the railroad and started his own company making railroad bridges from iron. -
His first steel mill
Eight years later he started his first steel mill,and by 1899, when he consolidated into the Carnegie Steel Company. -
His retired
He retired two year later, He devoted his life with using his wealth for the public good. -
His company
In 1911, he gave a gift of $125 million to establish his company which funding to institutions and organization.