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Andrew Carnegie was very successful entrepreneur and businessman in the 1800s and early 1900s he started the steel company and later went on to have profitable investments in the rail road and oil industries Carnegie retired at the beginning of the 20th century and began to devote his time , efforts , and money to help others he used his money to establish social organizations, museums, libraries, schools and Carnegie Mellon university

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he was also a philanthropist

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This is true.

The Commodore, as he was nicknamed, got his start with ferries and then expanded into steel and other investments.

Carnegie accumulated a lot of money and gave a lot of it away but was also fairly criticized as being a robber baron.

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