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George Washington Carver is born
George Washington Carver was born. When George was only a week old, he, a sister, and his mother were kidnapped by night raiders..https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver -
Moving
At thirteen, he wanted to attend the school 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 went to a series of schools before earning his diploma at Minneapolis High School in Minneapolis, Kansas..https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver -
Going to Collage
, Carver started studying art and piano at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa. 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..https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver -
Getting a Job
Booker T. Washington, the first principal and president of the Tuskegee Institute, invited Carver to take over 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 time there .https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver -
Getting Fired
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. He was then fired..https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver -
Starting to research food uses
From 1915 to 1923, Carver concentrated on researching and experimenting with new uses and ideas for peanuts, sweet potatoes, soybeans, pecans, and other crops, as well as having his assistants research help him..https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver -
Royal Society
Carver was invited to be in the Royal Society Arts which is a great honor. Its so great that only a few Americans have been given the honor..https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver -
Peanut Production
He made and shipped 140 peanut products. Reporters, researchers, and common people call this the age of the peanut. -
Created a great peanut invention
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.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver -
Death of Carver
Carver died at the age of 78 due to anemia making him fall down a flight of stairs and died..https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver