Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25,1835 in Dunfermline, Fife, scotland. His parents were “poor but honest” people. (Carnegie 2) His father was a poor handloom weaver, and the country was in a famine. His father, William Carnegie decided to move to America in hopes for a better life. They had to borrow money to move to Allegheny pennsylvania in 1848. At the age of 13 Carnegie got his first job as a bobbin boy, changing spools of thread in a cotton mill, 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. At 14 he found a job as a telegraph messenger. Later he began to work for the pennsylvania railroads at age 16. He worked under Thomas scott, one of the railroads top officials, as a telegraph operator and learned a lot about the railroad industry while gathering …show more content…
Carnegie’s success continued, and started to donate substantial amounts of money to form libraries, schools and laboratories. In 1881 he took his family to a trip to the United Kingdom. They toured Scotland and visited his home town of Dunfermline, where his mother formed Carnegie Library, which he donated money to. When he returned he wrote a book entitled, An American Four-in-hand in Britain, describing all his experiences. In 1886 both Carnegie's mother and brother, passed away. Andrew had been ill with typhoid, when he discovered his brother Thomas’ death, he had a harmful relapse. A month later, while Carnegie is still ill, his mother, Margaret died. In that same year he also published The Triumphant Democracy, a book that celebrated democracy and argued his view that American form of government was superior to the British monarch system, selling over 70,000 copies. After his mothers death, Carnegie married Louise Whitfield and eventually had a daughter whom he named after his mother,