George Washington Carver

By David Charles

  • George Washington Carver's birth

    George Washington Carver was born. When George was only a week old, he, a sister, and his mother were kidnapped by night raiders from Arkansas.

  • Moved

    At the age of thirteen, due to his desire to attend the academy there, he relocated to the home of another foster family in Fort Scott, Kansas. After witnessing a black man killed by a group of whites, Carver left the city. He attended a series of schools before earning his diploma at Minneapolis High School in Minneapolis, Kansas.

  • Travel

    Carver traveled by wagon with J. F. Beeler from Highland to Eden Township in Ness County, Kansashttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver

  • College

    In 1890, Carver started studying art and piano at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa.[12] His art teacher, Etta Budd, recognized Carver's talent for painting flowers and plants; she encouraged him to study botany at Iowa State Agricultural College in Ameshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver

  • Work

    In 1896, Booker T. Washington, the first principal and president of the Tuskegee Institute, invited Carver to head its Agriculture Department. Carver taught there for 47 years, developing the department into a strong research center and working with two additional college presidents during his tenure.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver

  • Resignation

    In 1904, an Institute committee reported that Carver's reports on yields from the poultry yard were exaggerated, and Washington confronted Carver about the issue. Carver replied in writing, "Now to be branded as a liar and party to such hellish deception it is more than I can bear, and if your committee feel that I have willfully lied or [was] party to such lies as were told my resignation is at your disposal."

  • Researching food

    From 1915 to 1923, Carver concentrated on researching and experimenting with new uses for peanuts, sweet potatoes, soybeans, pecans, and other crops, as well as having his assistants research and compile existing uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver

  • Royal Society of Arts

    In 1916 Carver was made a member of the Royal Society of Arts in England, one of only a handful of Americans at that time to receive this honor.
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  • Best Peanut production

    In 1932 the writer James Saxon Childers wrote that Carver and his peanut products were almost solely responsible for the rise in U.S. peanut production after the boll weevil devastated the American cotton crop beginning about 1892

  • Death

    Carver died January 5, 1943, at the age of 78 from complications (anemia) resulting from his fall down a flight of stairshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver