Title: The Andrew Carnegie Effect by Cole Smith
Headings: The Andrew Carnegie Effect
The Andrew Carnegie Effect
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Emigrating to America
Carnegie's First Investment
The Andrew Carnegie Effect
The Story of a boy from Scottland
The Steel Years
In America
At the age of 13, Andrew got a job in a textile mill bringing bobbins to the workers at the looms. He was paid $1.20 per week. After a year, Andrew became a messenger for a local telegraph company. He eventually taught himself how to use the telegraph equipment to send and receive messages and was hired by the superintendent of the Pittsburgh division of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a private secretary and personal telegrapher.

Content: The beliefs that made him leave the business world to become a philanthropist are outlined in a famous essay he wrote in 1889 called "The Gospel of Wealth." In his life time he donated $350 mil. dollars or 905 of his fortune for the benefit of man kind. Epilogue
In 1886 he married Louise Whitfield, the daughter of a prosperous New York merchant. Their only child, Margaret, was born in 1897. Andrew Carnegie died on August 11, 1919, in Shadowbrook, Massachusetts at the age of 83, as a result of bronchial pneumonia. All in all Andrew Carnegie was a great man even if he wasn't the most memorable. Show full text