Title: Andrew Carnegie - Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy
Headings: Andrew Carnegie:
Pioneer. Visionary. Innovator.

Andrew Carnegie:
Pioneer. Visionary. Innovator.
Meet the Father of Modern Philanthropy
• Humble Beginnings
• Keen Eye for Opportunity
• Wealthiest Man in the World
• Giving and Legacy
• Further Reading
• Historical Documents
• Gospel of Wealth
“To try to make the world in some way better than you found it is to have a noble motive in life.”
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie Birthplace
Humble Beginnings
“We sailed from the Broomielaw of Glasgow in the 800-ton sailing ship Wiscasset…”
Andrew Carnegie
An Immigrant’s Journey
“The emigrant is the capable, energetic, ambitious, discontented man.”
Andrew Carnegie
Industrious Youth
“It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive… as the founding of a public library.”
Andrew Carnegie
Keen Eye for Opportunity
Business Timeline
1849
Andrew Carnegie becomes a messenger boy
1853
Andrew Carnegie takes a job at the Pennsylvania Railroad
1856
Andrew Carnegie invests in sleeping cars
1861
Andrew Carnegie invests in oil
1865
Carnegie founds Keystone Bridge Company
1868
Carnegie pledges to resign from business
1875
First Steel Plant
1883
Carnegie buys the Homestead Steel Works
1892
Carnegie Steel is formed
1901
Carnegie sells to Morgan
Andrew Carnegie becomes a messenger boy
Andrew Carnegie takes a job at the Pennsylvania Railroad
Andrew Carnegie invests in sleeping cars
Andrew Carnegie invests in oil
Carnegie founds Keystone Bridge Company
Carnegie pledges to resign from business
First Steel Plant
Carnegie buys the Homestead Steel Works
Carnegie Steel is formed
Carnegie sells to Morgan
“Labor, capital, and ability are a three-legged stool… They are equal members of the great triple alliance which moves the industrial world.”
Andrew Carnegie
Map of Pittsburgh area, showing locations of the Carnegie Steel Mills
Birth of A Philanthropist
“The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.”
Andrew Carnegie
Board of Trustees at the first Carnegie Corporation meeting
Wealthiest Man in the World
Andrew Carnegie’s Peak Wealth in Comparison to Modern-Day Billionaires
Reading Ahead
Andrew Carnegie
Reconstructing the Reims Library
Giving and Legacy
Carnegie Organizations
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Institution for Science
The Carnegie UK Trust
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
Carnegie Dunfermline Trust
The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The Carnegie Hero Fund Trust
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Carnegie Foundation
Carnegie Hall
Champion for Peace
“Whoso wants to share the heroism of battle, let him join the fight against ignorance and disease and the mad idea that war is necessary.”
Andrew Carnegie
Flag of Peace
Further Reading
Books Written by Andrew Carnegie
Books Written About Andrew Carnegie
Historical Documents
Certificate of U.S. Naturalization
The Gospel of Wealth
Financial Records Journal
Pension Letter
Marriage Settlement
Stock Certificate
Gospel of Wealth

Content: Andrew Carnegie
The Empire of Business
Andrew Carnegie Birthplace
The Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum adjoins the cottage in Dunfermline, Scotland where Andrew Carnegie, the son of a handloom weaver, was born on November 25, 1835. Mr. Carnegie’s first public gift was for the town of Dunfermline. In 1874 he donated £5,000 for the Carnegie Baths recreation and health club, which was followed in 1880 by his gift for a public library. Humble Beginnings
Andrew Carnegie’s birthplace, Dunfermline, was Scotland’s historic medieval capital. Later famous for producing fine linen, the town fell on hard times when industrialism made home-based weaving obsolete, leaving workers such as Carnegie’s father, Will, hard pressed to support their families. Will and his father-in-law Thomas Morrison, a shoemaker and political reformer, joined the popular Chartist movement, which believed conditions for workers would improve if the masses were to take over the government from the landed gentry. When the movement failed in 1848, Will Carnegie and his wife, Margaret, sold their belongings to book passage to America for themselves and their sons, 13-year-old Andrew and 5-year-old Tom. “We sailed from the Broomielaw of Glasgow in the 800-ton sailing ship Wiscasset…”
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie (right) at age 16, photographed in 1851 with his younger brother, Thomas, shorty after their arrival in America
An Immigrant’s Journey
Andrew Carnegie’s family decided to settle in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh where they had friends and relatives. Their ship landed in New York City, which he found bewildering: “ New York was the first great hive of human industry among the inhabitants of which I had mingled, and the bustle and excitement of it overwhelmed me,” Carnegie wrote in his autobiography.