2) Andrew Carnegie
Industrial
personal life
1901 he finally retired and devoted himself to his charitable activities, which were themself vast
Carnegie died at age of 83
He did not marry until after his mom died
Family came to America, settling at allegheny Pennsylvania (now part of pittsburgh).
Worked first as a bobbin boy in cotton mill
Andrew Carnegie was born in dunfermline scotland on November, 25, 1835
Messenger in a telegraph office
Secretary to the superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Pittsburgh division
Wrote frequently about political and social matters and his most famous article "wealth"
1901 he finally retired and devoted himself to his charitable activities, which were themself vast.
Carnegie professed support for the rights of unions, his goals of economy and efficiency may have made him favour local management at the homestead plant.
Carnegie's own distributions of wealth came to total about $350,000,000 of which $62,000,000 went for benefactions in the British Empire and $288,000,000 for benefactions in the United states.
Andrew began work at age 12 as a bobbin boy in a cotton factory. He quickly became enthusiastically Americanized, educating himself by reading and writing and attending night school.
At age 14 Carnegie became a messenger in a telegraph office
Thomas Scott, a superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, who made Carnegie his private secretary and personal telegrapher in 1853.
invested in the Woodruff Sleeping Car Company and introduced the first successful sleeping car on American railroads.
investments in such industrial concerns as the Keystone Bridge Company, the Superior Rail Mill and Blast Furnaces, the Union Iron Mills, and the Pittsburgh Locomotive Works. and Pennsylvania oilfield
By the age of 30 he had an annual income of $50,000.
took several trips to Europe, selling railroad securities.
1872–73, at about age 38, he began concentrating on steel, founding near Pittsburgh the J. Edgar Thomson Steel Works, which would eventually evolve into the Carnegie Steel Company
industry
textiles
bobbin boy
Communications
messenger for a telegraph offrice
Railroad
Secretary to the superintendent of Penn. Railraod
became superintendent of the railroad company
made most of his money by investing in a sleeping car company
Steel Industry
built the first iron bridge to go across the ohio river.
made lots of money in this industry.
founded Keystone Bridge works
Philanthorpy
believe the rich should redistribute their wealth
wanted to give his money away carefully
founded the Carnegie Corporation of New York
Carnegie Public Libraries
Founded the Heros Fund in other countries
most of his funds went to educational and scientific institutions.
the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching