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He was born in a one-room cottage shared by two families in Dunfermline, Scotland, and was educated at the Free School until he was 12 in That year, facing starvation, his family emigrated to Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, where he started work in a cotton factory before taking the advice of an uncle and entering the telegraph industry as a messenger boy.

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Becoming an operator in , he was hired as secretary to Thomas A. Scott, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, who was the catalyst to his career and helped him invest his money in several growing businesses. Using their relationship and his savings by the late s Carnegie had established his first business supplying rails and bridges to the Railroad as well as arranging an industry-changing merger between George Pullman and a company in which he'd invested.

During the Civil War, Scott (by then appointed Assistant Secretary of War) placed him in charge of military transportation and Union telegraph lines. Aft