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