Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American who led the enormous expansions of the steel industry in the late 19th century. Andrew Carnegie was born November 25, 1835 in Dunfermline, Scotland. He died on August 11, 1919 in Shadow Brook, Massachusetts. He was 83 when Bronchial pneumonia caused his fatal death. He was married to Louise Whitfield and they had a girl named Margaret Carnegie Miller. Andrew was know as the second-richest man in history after John Rockefeller.
In 1848 he emigrated to the United states with his parents. He was a factory worker in a bobbin factory and this was his first job in the United States. He then became a messenger boy and eventually progressed up the ranks of a telegraph company. He made a lot of money from his steel company and all the Colleges he founded. He gave most of his money to establish libraries, schools, and universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and other countries.
Carnegie then got interested in steel and built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company in 1870.
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