Andrew Carnegie

Here's a time line of Andrew Carnegie's life:

• 1835 - Andrew Carnegie is born in Dunfermline, Scotland on November 15.
• 1848 - Carnegie gets first job as a bobbin boy in a textile mill at the age of 12, earning $1.20 per week.
• 1849 - Andrew Carnegie gets another job as as a messenger boy in a telegraph office at the age of 14, earning $2.50 per week.
• 1853 - Andrew Carnegie works at Pennsylvania Railroad; paid $35 per month.
• 1856 - Andrew Carnegie invests in Sleeping Cars for $217.50 and got a return of $5000 annually.
• 1859 - Andrew Carnegie becomes Superintendent at the Pennsylvania Railroad; paid $1500 per year.
• 1861 - Andrew Carnegie invest in oil for $11,000 and got a return of $17,868 annually.
• 1865 - Andrew Carnegie Founds the Keystone Bridge Company.
• 1867 - Andrew Carnegie Founds the Keystone Telegraph Company.
• 1875 - Andrew Carnegie opens his first steel plant, The Edgar Thompson Steel Works, in Braddock Pennsylvania.
• 1883 - Andrew Carnegie buys the Homestead Works from a rivaling company.
• 1887 - Carnegie marries Louise Whitfield on April 22.
• 1889 - Andrew Carnegie faces controversy on the Johnstown Flood on May 31.
• 1889 - Andrew Carnegie publishes book called "Gospel of Wealth".
• 1892 - Andrew Carnegie's Homestead Works goes through a strike and the Homestead Act occurs on July 6.
• 1897 - Andrew Carnegie's only child, a daughter, named Margret Carnegie, after Andrew's late mother, born on March 30.
• 1901 - Andrew Carnegie is bought out by J.P. Morgan for $480 million. Andrew Carnegie becomes the richest man on Earth.
• 1911 - Andrew Carnegie founds the Carnegie Corporation.
• 1919 - Andrew Carnegie dies at Shadowbrook, in Lenox, Massachusetts on August 11, form bronchial pneumonia.

"The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled."

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