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Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was the son of Scottish immigrants who grew up in Al legheny, Pennsylvania. He began his working career at age 13 when he worked as a bobbin boy in a cotton mill. Carnegie proved to be an industrious worker who w as employed by Western Union and the Pennsylvania Railroad. Eventually, he orga nized the Carnegie Steel Company which launched the steel industry in Pittsburgh . At the age of 65, he sold the company to J.P. Morgan and devoted the rest of his life to philanthropy. He endowed the famous World Tribunal Court which is l ocated in The Hague, Netherlands. Reprinted with permission from the 1997 Carnegie Corporation of New York web site (http://www.carnegie.org/).

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