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Andrew Carnegie born on Novermber 25, 1835 in Dunfermline, Scottland. He emigrated with his family to [|Allegheny, Pennsylvania] in the United States in 1848 for the prospect of a better life.[|[3]] Andrew's family had to borrow money in order to immigrate. Allegheny was a very poor area. His first job at age 13 in 1848 was as a [|bobbin boy], changing spools of thread in a cotton mill twelve hours a day, six days a week. His wages were $1.20 per week.[|[4]] Andrew's father, William Carnegie, started off working in a cotton mill but then would earn money weaving and peddling linens. His mother, Margaret Morrison Carnegie, earned money by binding shoes.In 1850, Carnegie became a telegraph messenger boy in the Pittsburgh Office of the [|Ohio Telegraph Company], at $2.50 per week. Starting in 1853, [|Thomas A. Scott] of the [|Pennsylvania Railroad Company] employed Carnegie as a secretary/telegraph operator at a salary of $4.00 per week. At age eighteen, the youth began a rapid advancement through the company, becoming the superintendent of the Pittsburgh Division. His employment by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company would be vital to his later success.He later built Pittsburgh's [|Carnegie Steel Company], which was later merged with [|Elbert H. Gary's] Federal Steel Company and several smaller companies to create [|U.S. Steel]. With the fortune he made from business, he later turned to philanthropy and interests in education, founding the [|Carnegie Corporation of New York], [|Carnegie Endowment for International Peace], [|Carnegie Mellon University] and the [|Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh]. Carnegie gave away most of his money to establish many [|libraries], schools, and universities in America, the United Kingdom and other countries, as well as a pension fund for former employees. He is often regarded as the [|second-richest man in history] after [|John D. Rockefeller]. Carnegie started as a [|telegrapher] and by the 1860s had investments in railroads, railroad sleeping cars, bridges and oil derricks. He built further wealth as a bond salesman raising money for American enterprise in Europe. He earned most of his fortune in the [|steel industry]. In the 1870s, he founded the Carnegie Steel Company, a step which cemented his name as one of the “Captains of Industry”. By the 1890s, the company was the largest and most profitable industrial enterprise in the world. Carnegie sold it to [|J.P. Morgan] in 1901, who created U.S. Steel. Carnegie devoted the remainder of his life to large-scale philanthropy, with special emphasis on local libraries, world peace, education and scientific research. His life has often been referred to as a true "[|rags to riches]" story.

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