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Carnegie- Andrew Carnegie was born into a poor Scottish family in 1835. He was a businessman and philanthropist. Carnegie built Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Steel Company. Afterwards his company merged with Federal Steel Company and other smaller companies to create US Steel. He donated much of his fortune to help with causes like education and peace. He also gave 125 million dollars to start a foundation called the Carnegie Corporation which gives money to colleges and schools. By 1911 he had given away about 90% of his fortune.Today the money Andrew Carnegie donated and used to build libraries and other educational buildings still exists.

J.P. Morgan- John Piermont Morgan was an American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time. J.P. Morgan started many companies, corporations and art museums. He entered banking in 1857 at his father's London Branch. He then moved to New York City the next year where he worked at the banking house of Duncan, Sherman and Company, the American representatives of George Peabody and Company. He was a great business man and new how to keep managements in order. J.P. Morgan does not have anything to do with topics of today or in the future.

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