Andrew Carnegie was an American who owned industries and was charitable. He said, "Beyond this, never earn, make no effort to increase fortune, but spend the surplus each year for benevolent purposes."
             Andrew Carnegie was born on 1835 in Dunfermline, Scotland, the son of Margaret and Will Carnegie. Will was a handloom weaver, was a Chartist and political radical marcher for workingman's causes, after trying to keep the weaving industry alive by publishing letters on radical magazines it finally came to and end and Will Carnegie decided to move to America after hearing many encouraging reports.
             In 1848 after the family sold all their belongings and borrowed the extra money needed to be able to make the trip to America, the Carnegies embarked the small sailing ship the Wiscasset, and set sailed for a 52 day trip to New York, and three weeks to finally arrive at their final destination-Allegheny, Pa. now part of Pittsburg.
             Soon after their arrival, at the age of 12, Andrew started to work as a bobbin boy in a cotton factory and was earning $1.20 per week. In 1849 he got a job at the O'Reilly Telegraph Company as a messenger boy and learned telegraphy. He was then employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad as the private secretary and telegrapher to the railroad official Thomas Alexander Scott. In 1856 Scott persuaded Carnegie to buy some stock and even loaned him the money to do so.
             The experience of receiving dividends changed Carnegie's attitude and he became an enthusiastic investor. In 1859 at the age of 24, he succeeded Scott as superintendent of the railroad's Pittsburgh division and was paid a sizable salary of $1500 per year. While in this post, he invested in many companies and took several trips to Europe, selling railroad securities. By the age of 30 he had an annual income of $50,000.
             In 1865 Carnegie left the Pennsylvania Railroad to manage the Keystone Bridge Company, a company that was started in 1862 by Carnegie...