Andrew Carnegie
1835 – 1919 American steel magnate, philanthropist
Scottish-born steel magnate who became one of history's great philanthropists.
- Religion
- Presbyterian upbringing; later agnostic.
- Affiliations
- Founded Carnegie Steel, sold to form U.S. Steel; funded thousands of libraries, Carnegie Hall and the Carnegie endowments.
A poor immigrant from Dunfermline, he built Carnegie Steel into the world's largest steel producer and sold it to J. P. Morgan in 1901 to form U.S. Steel. He then gave away most of his fortune, funding libraries, universities and peace endowments under the creed of his 'Gospel of Wealth'.
Connections
- associate of J. P. Morgan — Bought Carnegie Steel in 1901 to create U.S. Steel.
In the timeline
- 1892 Founding of Carnegie Steel mentioned
- 1892 Homestead strike militia deployment mentioned
- 1892 Battle of Homestead mentioned
- 1893 Pinkertons and the Homestead steel strike mentioned
- 1902 Carnegie publishes 'The Empire of Business' mentioned
- 1902 Andrew Carnegie endows the Carnegie Institution central figure
- 1911 Carnegie's fortune becomes a philanthropic engine mentioned
- 1918 Gatto's claim of a 1918 Carnegie history meeting mentioned