Andrew Carnegie’s decision to compliment library construction developed from his experience. Born in 1835, he spent his first 12 years from the coastal city of Dunfermline, Scotland. There he listened to men read aloud and discuss books borrowed from the Tradesmen’s Subscription Library that his father, a weaver, had helped create.pop over to this site Carnegie began his formal education at age eight, but were required to stop after only three years. The rapid industrialization …