Industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie is born in Dunfermline, Scotland. Carnegie immigrated to Allegheny, Pennsylvania with his family in the 1840s, where he later got a job working for a railroad. Carnegie is best known for founding Carnegie Steel Company, and for later selling his company to fund significant philanthropy across the United States and Europe.
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