Andrew Was Born in Scotland and Although He Had, No Formal Schooling Was an Avid Reader

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Andrew was born in Scotland and although he had, no formal schooling was an avid reader and his family always believed in the importance of books and learning. His father worked on a weaving loom and because of the Industrial Revolution and the textile industry his family had gone through hard times. With Industrialization, booming Andrew’s family moved to America. Once in the United States Andrew began working in a factory for 1.20 dollars a week. He then began working for the railroads in a few years started making investments in a revolutionary natural resource.

Hugh was born in America and had been born into a family with moral values. As a young boy, he was a hard worker and never formally was educated. He worked to help his family and he had learned a great deal about factory work and values of work growing up. He was a leader in the community and at work because of the desire for increased better regulations and conditions for the worker had become a great leader.

Henry was born in America and was the second of six children born in a wealthy family. Henry received all of his formal education in thirty months’ time because he wanted to enter the business world. He began working as a salesperson and then moving on to work for his grandfather’s distillery. By 28 he had founded his own company. Henry made a substantial amount of money by brokering the sale of a railroad. He used that money to invest in his company and by the time he was thirty he was a millionaire.

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Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American Industrialist who led the expansion of the Steel industry in the 19th century in America. Andrew was a self-made man and earned all of his money from working first in railroads and then in the steel industry. With the Industrialization of America Carnegie was in the right place at the right time, first investing in railroads and then with the steel industry. Urbanization began all over America because of the Industrial Revolution and the need for steel throughout America for buildings and factories. Andrew Carnegie is often identified as one the richest people ever in human history. At the time of his death his assets were valued at 3 billion dollars and in comparison today’s value would be 310 billion dollars. Andrew Carnegie always favored labor unions and once said that no steel mill was worth a single drop of blood. Carnegie was also known as a leading philanthropists in the United States and donating over 380 million dollars over his lifetime to charities, foundations, and universities. In his 1889 article proclaiming, "The Gospel of Wealth” called on the rich to use their wealth to improve society, and stimulated a wave of philanthropy

Hugh O'Donnell began working in the Steel mills at the age of 17. He worked at the homestead steel mill as a heater, which supervised the furnace in smelting steel. Hugh O'Donnell joined the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, which was a labor union to negotiate higher pay, better working conditions, and more time off. Hugh was named chairman of the advisory committee that was in charge of planning the strike at Homestead. With the steel industry becoming very prosperous, the Union representatives wanted an increased wage. As a result of what happened at the Homestead strike O’Donnell had to look for other work and moved to Chicago to become a newspaper reporter.

Carnegie believed that this would stop the workers for being as efficient. So Henry Frick was hired to be hard on the labor unions and disband them. The company locked out the workers and tried to hire new ones but the union blocked the new workers from entering the steel factory. 300 employees of the Pinkerton national Detective Agency arrived by rail at the Homestead factory, about five miles south of Pittsburgh along the Ohio River. These were put aboard two specially equipped barges, laden with 300 pistols and 250 rifles, and pulled by a tugboat up the river to Homestead. Their jobs was to force the union out by any means necessary. They were met by 10,000 Strike leaders that surrounded the factory during the conflict the strikers started fires on the barges creating chaos. The Pinkertons eventually surrendered and left.

Henry Frick was not finished and he got the government involved. The National Guard was later brought in, and they forced the union to disband. O'Donnell was brought up on several charges including starting a riot, murder, and conspiracy. Later all charges were dropped, but O’Donnell could never work in the steel mills again and eventually moved to Philadelphia. Henry Frick’s leadership kept the Unions out even though a union member shot him three times. Henry Frick remained private for the rest of his life and because of the Industrialization of America contributed millions of dollars to charities, museums, and the parks in Pittsburgh.

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