Carnegie, Andrew
Carnegie, Andrew (1835–1919), steel magnate, philanthropist, and pacifist.Born in Dunfermline, Scotland, Carnegie was indoctrinated in the democratic, pacifistic tenets of his father, a Chartist radical. The Carnegies emigrated to Pittsburgh in 1848, where the boy became a telegrapher for Thomas Scott of the Pennsylvania Railroad. He accompanied Scott to Washington at the outbreak of the Civil War to supervise the extension of telegraph lines to the Union forces. In 1865, Carnegie left the Pennsylvania Railroad to enter a variety of business activities before devoting his full attention to the manufacture of steel. By the 1880s, he was America's king of steel.
Although opposed to militarism, Carnegie justified his providing armor plate for the naval expansion program of the 1890s as defensive, not offensive, in purpose. He supported the Spanish‐American War for...
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