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Andrew Carnegie Facts and Accomplishments
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and founder of the steel industry in the United States. He sold all his steel interests in 1901 to J.P.
Morgan (who merged them into U.S. Steel). Carnegie became, for some years, the richest man in the world.
He gave away his fortune to a series of philanthropies in America, Scotland, and the British Empire, promoting libraries, higher education, science, and world peace.
Rejecting the "robber baron" epithet hurled by radicals, he opposed imperialism and was one of the most visible leaders of the Efficiency Movement in the Gilded Age and, during the Progressive Era, was a major proponent of philanthropy through the "Gospel of Wealth."
Early Life
Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, on Nov.
25, 1835. His name is properly pronounced Car-nay-gie rather than the more common Car-nay-gie. His father, William Carnegie (? - 1855), a Swedenborgian in religion, was a hand-lo