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# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:34:40.024Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, and arrived in Pittsburgh at 12 in 1848 with his parents. He started in a cotton mill, moved to telegraphy, then built wealth through railroads, oil, bridges, and bond sales that funneled European capital into American ventures. By the 1860s he'd assembled the pieces; decades later he forged them into Carnegie Steel, which he sold to J. P. Morgan in 1901 for over $303 million — the seed of U.S. Steel and the deal that made him richer than Rockefeller. He spent his remaining 18 years endowing what still carries his name: Carnegie Hall, Carnegie Mellon, the Peace Palace in The Hague, thousands of libraries, and institutions for science and international peace. He died in 1919 having dispersed roughly 90 percent of his fortune.