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2) Andrew Carnegie (Industrial (Worked first as a bobbin boy in cotton…
2) Andrew Carnegie
Industrial
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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.
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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
personal life
1901 he finally retired and devoted himself to his charitable activities, which were themself vast
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Family came to America, settling at allegheny Pennsylvania (now part of pittsburgh).
Andrew Carnegie was born in dunfermline scotland on November, 25, 1835
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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.
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