I think Andrew Carnegie was a good man for many reasons, he was an underdog story from being born in a potato famine to being the richest man in the world. He donated an absurd amount of money to charities, churches, schools and libraries, which is estimated to be $13040459656. He created many jobs for other people and owned the biggest metal-making plant in the world. His metal production alone was the largest in the world at that time. Andrew Carnegie was raised in Dunfermline, Scotland and lived there until he was 12. When Carnegie was 12, Carnegie and his family moved to the United States, in 1848 the Carnegie family landed in New York. They went west on the Erie Canal to Buffalo then to Pittsburgh. When Carnegie was only 12 years old, …show more content…
Carnegie was recognized for his hustle by most of the business men in Pittsburgh. Without the contributions of Andrew, his family wouldn't be able to make ends meet. His family needed $7.50 a week to make it. Carnegie also taught himself to be able to tap morse code telegraph messages; at the age of 16 he was promoted to telegraph operator. He became locally famous for being able to do the dot-dot dash-dash messages by ear, there were only three people that were able to in the country and he was one of them. He was making $4.00 a week. At age 17, Carnegie got a job on the railroad crew in Pennsylvania and was making $8.00 a week and his annual earnings were $1500 a year. Andrew Carnegie was also a philanthropist, he spied on giving his money away to the less fortunate. In Carnegie time he gave over 350,695,653 million dollars, the money he donated mainly went to churches and schools and libraries. Carnegie donated $26,420,000 to colleges and universities in Scotland and a lot of this money went to the TIAA, which provides insurance and retirement products to teachers in the United States. Carnegie donated $6,428,000 to churches and also donated $10,000,000 to abolish war faster. Carnegie