Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25, 1835 in Dunfermline Scotland. When he was 13, his family moved to America. He was really poor at the time. Before long Andrew started working at a cotton mill as a bobbin boy for one dollar and twenty cents a week. His father worked there too, and his mother made a small amount of money, binding shoes. When Andrew was 15, he got a job as a telegraph messenger boy and learned to send and read telegraph messages without even writing them down. When he was 17, he became a telegraph operator. Andrew next became a railroad clerk, then he became a train dispatcher, finally he became division manager when he was only 24 years old, and bought stock in the Woodruff Sleeping Car Company. In 1873 Andrew Carnegie entered the iron business, but he did not make steel for several years. In 1899 he merged his interests into Carnegie steel company. When Carnegie retired, he had about half a billion dollars. After that he devoted himself largely to philanthropy. He gave away most of his money to support education, public libraries, and the world peace movement. He wrote an article called “Wealth”; he also wrote Triumphant Democracy, which was published in 1886, The Gospel of Wealth (1900), The Empire of Business (1902), Problems of Today (1908), and an autobiography (1920). He was made commander of the French Legion of Honor in 1907, and in 1911, received the peace metal of the Fourth International Congress of American States. Andrew Carnegie gave away a whole lot of money. He gave 135 million to the Carnegie Corporation of New York, 10 million to hero funds, 11 million to the Carnegie Institute of Technology, 10 million to universities in Scotland, 1 and a half million to churches on behalf of the permanent peace. In all he gave about 350 million dollars away.
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