Changes

[[Image:Andrew carnegie.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Andrew Carnegie]]

[[Image:Andrew carnegie.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Andrew Carnegie]]

Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) was the founder of the Carnegie Steel Company (which later became [[U.S. Steel]]) and one of the wealthiest men in the world in the late 1800s.  A Scottish-American, Carnegie is famous for amassing enormous wealth while paying low wages to his workers, and then giving away his fortune to libraries, universities, and the arts, and to projects such as world peace.

'''Andrew Carnegie''' (1835–1919) was the founder of the Carnegie Steel Company (which later became [[U.S. Steel]]) and one of the wealthiest men in the world in the late 1800s.  A Scottish-American, Carnegie is famous for amassing enormous wealth while paying low wages to his workers, and then giving away his fortune to libraries, universities, and the arts, and to projects such as world peace.

Carnegie was the author of "The Gospel of Wealth."  Though a [[Christian]] for much of his life, he became an [[atheism|atheist]] in his elder years. He suppported the "League of Nations" <ref>http://www.carnegie.org/results/13/index.html</ref> and was  

Carnegie was the author of "The Gospel of Wealth."  Though a [[Christian]] for much of his life, he became an [[atheism|atheist]] in his elder years. He suppported the "[[League of Nations]]" <ref>http://www.carnegie.org/results/13/index.html</ref> and was  

an advocate of the inheritance tax.

an advocate of the inheritance tax.

==References==

==References==

<references/>

<references/>

 

[[Category:Businesspeople]]

[[Category:Businesspeople]]

[[Category:Scottish People]]

[[Category:Scottish People]]