A short informative/biography about Andrew Carnegie
Title: A short informative/biography about Andrew Carnegie
Category: /Literature/Biographies
Details: Words: 355 | Pages: 1 (approximately 235 words/page)
A short informative/biography about Andrew Carnegie
Category: /Literature/Biographies
Details: Words: 355 | Pages: 1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland. He went to the U.S. in 1848 and soon began work as a bobbin boy in a cotton mill in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, for $1.20 per week. The following year he became a messenger in a Pittsburgh telegraph office and learned telegraphy. He was then employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad as the private secretary and telegrapher to the railroad official Thomas Alexander Scott. Carnegie advanced by successive promotions until he was
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town of his birth; his largest single gift was in 1911 for $125 million to establish the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
He was a benefactor of Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University). He also endowed over 2,800 libraries throughout the world, and he donated funds for the construction of the Peace Palace at The Hague, Netherlands, for what is now the International Court of Justice of the United Nations. Carnegie was honored throughout the world during his lifetime.