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Apr 3, 2014 · Andrew Carnegie was a self-made steel tycoon and one of the wealthiest businessmen of the 19th century. He later dedicated his life to philanthropic endeavors. Updated: May 26, 2021
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One of the captains of industry of 19th century America, Andrew Carnegie helped build the formidable American steel industry, a process that turned a poor young man into the richest man in the...
The man who would one day be the richest in the world grew up in dire poverty. The son of a handloom weaver, Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, the medieval capital of Scotland, in 1835. When the...
Andrew Carnegie, (born Nov. 25, 1835, Dunfermline, Fife, Scot.—died Aug. 11, 1919, Lenox, Mass., U.S.), U.S. industrialist and philanthropist. The son of a Scottish weaver, he emigrated to the U.S. with his family in 1848.
Apr 22, 2013 · Andrew Carnegie became one of the world's greatest philanthropists. By Gillian Sharpe. BBC Scotland. The name Carnegie is ubiquitous; libraries, institutes, trusts, foundations in Britain, the...
Aug 1, 2013 · Andrew Carnegie was once the richest man in the world. Coming as a dirt poor kid from Scotland to the U.S., by the 1880s he'd built an empire in steel — and then gave it all away: $60 million...
