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jok3333 [9.3K]
3 years ago
14

Carnegie worked in the railroad industry, but how did Andrew Carnegie make his fortune?

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Alex73 [517]3 years ago
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Scottish-born Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was an American industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry then became a major philanthropist. Carnegie worked in a Pittsburgh cotton factory as a boy before rising to the position of division superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1859

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