Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1893 — CARNEGIE’S HUMBLE ORIGIN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CARNEGIE’S HUMBLE ORIGIN.

Began Life aa an Attendant to a Stationary Engine. It Is often asked In the journals on both sides of the Atlantic whethei Andrew Carnegie’s family is not connected with the Scotch nobility. Noi at all. His father was a weaver in

Dunfermline, who took his family to the Dnited States in 1845, when Andrew was 10 years old. The lad began life as an attendant to a stationary engine; later he took up telegraphy, and was employed by the Pennsylvania Boad as telegrapher and clerk to the superintendent of telegraph lines.

ANDREW CARNEGIE.