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US industrialist and philanthropist, b. Scotland. A telegraph operator with the Pennsylvania Railroad (1853-65), he foresaw the demand for iron and steel, and founded the Keystone Bridge Company. From 1873 he concentrated on steel manufacture, pioneering mass production techniques. By 1901 the Carnegie Steel Company was producing 25% of US steel. Carnegie endowed 2800 libraries and donated more than $350 million to charitable foundations.


Carnegie, Andrew

From Encyclopedia of American Studies
The major problem with evaluating Andrew Carnegie, the richest man in the world before John D. Rockefeller took the title around 1910, is that what he said, wrote, and did was frequently contradictory. Carnegie, who was born on November 25, 1835, in Dunfermline, Scotland, and died on August 11, 1919, in Lenox, Massachusetts, advised emperors and presidents about how to manage their countries, but he used spies to ferret out labor organizers in his own factories, and in 1892 he approved Pinkerton strikebreakers to crush a union in his Homestead, Pennsylvania, plant. An avowed social Darwinist, Carnegie considered Anglo-Americans a superior race, but as an anti-imperialist he bitterly opposed American occupation of the Philippines. The press lauded Carnegie, the philanthropist, for donating 311 million dollars—some ninety percent of his fortune—to finance libraries, provide pensions for teachers, give awards for heroism, and for other estimable works. But he never helped the poor…
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From The Great American History Fact-Finder
Philanthropist and industrialist. Carnegie, a poor immigrant from Scotland, became one of the richest men in the world. In 1899 he established the Carnegie Steel Corporation by buying and consolidating many smaller steel mills. A strike at his Homestead , Pennsylvania, plant in 1892 turned into one…
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Full text Article Carnegie, Andrew (1835-1919)

From Encyclopedia of American Business History
Andrew Carnegie (L ibrary of C ongress)
industrialist Born in Dunfermline, Scotland, in 1835, Carnegie immigrated to the United States with his family in 1848. The family settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where Andrew went to work to help support the family rather than attend school. He took his first job in a factory when he was 13…
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From Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present Full text Article A-Z Entries
An industrial magnate, philanthropist, and influential writer who rose from poverty to control iron and steel manufacturing in America. Andrew Carnegie's writings celebrated individualism, competition, economic growth, and democracy and challenged the wealthy to practice a philanthropy that would…
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From The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Place : United States of America Subject : biography, technology and manufacturing Scottish-born US industrialist whose willingness to adopt new methods of steelmaking was instrumental in advancing both the techniques and commercial potential of the iron and steel industry. Carnegie was born in…
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Scottish-born US steel magnate and philanthropist. He emigrated with his family in 1848, investing his savings in oil lands as a youth and amassing a vast fortune, with which he endowed numerous institutions and good causes. The man who dies rich…dies disgraced. 1889 ‘The Gospel of Wealth’, in the…
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From The Oxford Companion to British History
Philanthropist. Carnegie was born in Dunfermline but brought up in the USA. He made a vast entrepreneurial fortune, mainly in railroads and the iron industry, retiring in 1901 to supervise the ‘wide distribution’ of his great wealth. He had already begun in 1882 with the gift of a library to…
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Full text Article Carnegie, Andrew (1835–1919), industrial entrepreneur and philanthropist

From The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History
whose life embodied the rags-to-riches myth of the self-made man. Born to a working-class family in Dunfermline, Scotland, Carnegie immigrated to America in 1848 and settled near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Soon after his arrival, he began work in a textile mill for $1.20 per week. Five decades later, …
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From Chambers Dictionary of World History
US industrialist and philanthropist. Born in Dunfermline, Scotland, the son of a weaver, his family emigrated to Pittsburgh in 1848. After several jobs he founded his first company, which grew into the largest iron and steel corporation in the USA. He retired in 1901, a multimillionaire, to Skibo…
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From Collins Dictionary of Quotations
In charity there is no excess. BACON, Francis ‘ Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature ’ (1625). Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world. BROWNE, Sir Thomas Religio Medici (1643). …
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