Why was George Washington Carver Famous?
George Washington Carver was an American scientist, botanist, educator and inventor. He was known to be the plant doctor because he would help friends and neighbors nurture sick plants. He was a world-famous chemist who made important agricultural discoveries and inventions. His research on peanuts, sweet potatoes, and other products helped poor southern farmers vary their crops and improve their diets.
George Washington Carver was born on January 1864 in a farm near Diamond, Missouri, in Newton County. He was born to Mary, who was owned by Moses and Susan Carver. However, George Washington Carver’s father, Giles, was a slave on a neighboring farm and died before he was even born.
When George Washington Carver was just a month old, he and his mother was kidnapped by a band of men who roamed Missouri during the Civil War era. They hoped to sell them somewhere else but George was recovered by a neighbor and was returned to Mary and Susan. His mother were not. So Mary and Susan raised the two kids like their own.
George Washington Carver, however, was a sick and weak child. So while his brother, Jim help Moses with the farm work outside, George help Susan with chores inside the cabin. He help tended the garden and became fascinated with plants. Susan even taught him how to read and write since no schools would accept black students at that time.
When he was a teenager he went to school in Neosho, Kansas. George finished school in his early twenties and went on to farm until he had enough money to go to Simpson College in Iowa. There he studied art and piano. But at Iowa State George met discrimination, he was not allowed to live or eat with the white students so he ate his meals in the ba...
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...uction of the crop rotation for restoring nutrients to the soil. Another one of his accomplishments was finding all the different ways to use the peanut and the sweet potato.
George Washington Carver was died on January 5, 1943. He died from anemia and being sick for so long. Also he was buried next to his friend, Booker T. Washington. Washington Carver National Monument was built, near his birthplace in Missouri. It was the first federal monument dedicated to a black person.
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George W. Carver’s birth does not have an exact date and there are conflicting reports about his date of birth. Most sources believe he was born into slavery around 1864(CBN News). In his words’ though, “I was about 2 weeks old when the war closed” ( National Park Service), this statement refers to the Civil War which concluded in 1865. Carver might not have a concrete birthdate but the start of his life had a unique and somewhat blessed start. George Washington Carver was born on a small farm to slave parents near Diamond Grove, Missouri, but soon was kidnapped at an early age along with the rest of his family (Bagley). His owners at the time found and took him back home and raised him and his brother as one of their own since the Emancipation Proclamation had set all slaves free. G.W.C didn’t really know his biological parents since his mother had not been recovered from the kidnappers and his father’s possible farming-related death before he was born. He might have had a weary beginning, but his adoptive family gave him the first tidbits of knowledge and the taste of
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George Washington Carver was born in 1864 and it was a time that was very different from today. Carver was born a slave in the state of Missouri. George Washington Carver was a great chemist among many other talents, but his early life was very difficult.His parents were Mary and Giles who were
When he was fifteen years old, his mother died from appendicitis. From fifteen years of age to his college years, he lived in an all-white neighborhood. From 1914-1917, he shifted from many colleges and academic courses of study as well as he changed his cultural identity growing up. He studied physical education, agriculture, and literature at a total of six colleges and universities from Wisconsin to New York. Although he never completed a degree, his educational pursuits laid the foundation for his writing career.
He was one of the leading scientists of his day in America. He tried new ways of planting crops and raising animals, (Greene 37). He was one of the first farmers to grow tomatoes in the United States, (Greene 25).
George Washington Carver's interest in plants began at an early age. Growing up in postemancipation Missouri under the care of his parents' former owners, Carver collected from the surrounding forests and fields a variety of wild plants and flowers, which he planted in a garden. At the age of ten, he left home of his own volition to attend a colored school in the nearby community of Neosho, where he did chores for a black family in exchange for food and a place to sleep. He maintained his interest in plants while putting himself through high school in Minneapolis, Kansas, and during his first and only year at Simpson College in Iowa. During this period, he made many sketches of plants and flowers. He made the study of plants his focus in 1891, the year he enrolled at Iowa State College. After graduating in 1894 with a B.S. in botany and agriculture, he spent two additional years at Iowa State to complete a master's degree in the same fields. During this time, he taught botany to undergraduate students and conducted extensive experiments on plants while managing the university's greenhouse. These experiences served him well during his first few years at Tuskegee.
When George was a teenager he went to a school for black children in Neosho, Kansas. He then spent the next ten years traveling through the Midwest. He finally finished school in his early twenties. Then George spent time farming until he had enough money to go to Simpson College in Iowa. After some time at Simpson he went to Iowa State, and in 1894 he became the first black student to graduate from Iowa State University. In 1896, George Washington Carver received his Masters Degree from Iowa State University. At this time George was beginning to be known around the U.S. for the study of fungi and parasites, and also for the study of plants.
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Washington's father, Augustine Washington was born in 1694 and died in 1743. He had four children with his first wife, Jane Butler Washington. She died in 1729. In March 1731, Augustine married Mary Ball. She was George's mother. Mary was born in 1709 and died in 1789.
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No black school was available locally so he was forced to move. He said "Good-bye" to his adopted parents, Susan and Moses, and headed to Newton County in southwest Missouri. Here is where the path of his education began. He studied in a one-room schoolhouse and worked on a farm to pay for it. He ended up, shortly after, moving with another family to Fort Scott in Kansas. In Kansas, he worked as a baker in a kitchen while he attended the High School. He paid for his schooling with the money he earned from winning bake-off contests. From there he moved all over bouncing from school to school. "College entrance was a struggle again because of racial barriers."2 At the age of thirty he gained acceptance to Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa.
At the age of eighteen Carver married his pregnant girlfriend Maryann Burk by the age of twenty he had two children. In 1958 Carver attended Chico State College. He then graduated from Humboldt State College in 1963. Trying to obtain an education and providing fo...
George Washington Carver was born into slavery in January of 1860 on the Moses Carver plantation in Diamond Grove, Missouri. He spent the first year of his life, in the brutal days of border war, between Missouri and neighboring Kansas. George was a very sickly child with a whooping cough, which later led to his speech impediment, and he was tiny and puny. George's father, James Carver, died in a wood hauling accident when he was bringing wood to his master's house one day. George was sick a great deal during his early years.