George Washington Carver: A Brief Biography
Keegin Kahkonen
Mrs. DeShambo
English 8
January 13, 2017
He had invented a ton of things with just sweet potato, peanuts, and pecans. He went to college for majoring in art. A couple of his professors got him to change his mind. He went to another college and majored in agriculture. George Washington Carver was born before the Civil War. His exact birth is unknown. He was born in the Kansas Territory near Diamond Grove, Missouri. In 1864, he was born into slavery from his mother and father. He was one of twelve children born from Giles and Mary. His parents were owned by a German American immigrant named Moses Carver. George’s father was killed a little bit before George was born.
Moses and Susan Carver were small-scale farmers, they were …show more content…
successful. The only slaves, Moses and his wife had been Carver’s mother and his older brother. He was not allowed to go to the nearby school because of his color. “Being a sickly child, George was not required to do hard labor, but helped around the house.” (history.com). Carver’s mother had disappeared when George was just an infant. At about the same time Carver’s mother had disappeared, George became orphaned and free.
In 1890, he kept himself busy by doing laundry, cooking, and homesteading just before he finally attended at Simpson College Indianola, Iowa. Once slavery was finally ended Moses and his wife raised him and his brother James. Since there were no local schools for black students at the time, George learned how to write and read from Susan Carver. Carver snuck away from slavery.
“The search for knowledge would remain a driving force for the rest of George’s life.” (biography.com) He left the Carver home to go to a school 10 miles away from the Carver home.
He received his diploma at Minneapolis High School in Minneapolis, Kansas, after attending a series of school. When Carber went to Simpson College he majored in art. Then one professor convinced him to go into agriculture at Iowa State College. George had grown up to be an inventor, educator, scientist, and botanist. George Washington Carver an inventor. An inventor who used one major crop, the peanut, with the use of plastics, gasoline, and dyes to make hundreds of products. George applied at Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts to study. He then was turned down when they learned he was of African heritage. He applied to Simpson College at Indianola, Iowa. He was then the second African American to attend Simpson College. The tuition was twelve dollars a year, so he had to work hard to pay it off. He worked as a cook at Winterset, Iowa, in a hotel to raise the money for his tuition. For three years he attended Simpson …show more content…
College.
He was accepted after trying for the second time at Iowa State. He was in charge of the greenhouse while doing graduate/advance work. He had the respect of all the student body and administration of faculty. In 1896 he got his master’s degree in agriculture.
He moved to Ames, Iowa to begin his botanical studies. “Upon completion of his Bachelor of Science degree, Carver’s professors Joseph Budd and Louis Pammel persuaded him to stay on for a master’s degree. “His graduate studies included intensive work in plant pathology at the Iowa Experiment Station.”(biography.com) In those years, George vested his reputation as a brilliant botanist. To begin the work that he would pursue for the rest of his life. He was offered tons of jobs, but he only accepted one. He took the job of being a professor at Simpson College.
“Said Washington, “I cannot offer you money, position or fame. The first two you have. The last from the position you now occupy you will no doubt achieve. These things I now ask you to give up. I offer you in their place: work-hard, hard work, the task of bringing a person from degradation, poverty, and waste to full manhood. Your department exists only on paper and your laboratory will have to be in your head.” (notablebiographies.com).
Carver boarded on a career researching and teaching, right after graduating from Iowa State. In 1896, the principle of African-American Tuskegee Institute, Booker T. Washington, hired him to run the school’s agricultural department.
Carver was interested in soil conservation and crop rotation.
He extracted a full range of dyestuff from the clay soil of Alabama. Just from pecans he created sixty products. He developed a cereal, coffee from sweet potato. He also made paste, oils, a shoe polish, and about a hundred more products just from the sweet potato.
“In 1916, Carver published a research bulletin, “How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it For Human Consumption.” This bulletin includes several interesting ways to use peanuts like shampoo, mayonnaise, paints and coffee.” (nationalpeanutboard.org)
George Washington Carver invented tons of inventions, just not peanut butter. Peanut butter was originally invented by Lincoln's wife. Lincoln wanted to make it look like a black man had invented peanut butter. He wanted that so that the south would be nicer to the black. But at the night of a play, just as he found a perfect name, he was shot. He was shot in the head by a man named John Wilkes Booth. Years went by, the president at the time, sent a bottle of peanut butter to George W. Carver. Carver went inside with the bottle and said he made it.
Carver published all of his findings in a variety of nearly fifty bulletins. Carver made over 145 products just from peanuts. Carver said that sweet potatoes, peanuts, and pecans could replace cotton as a money
crop.
Leading the passage of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Bill of 1922, in 1921 the testimony of Carver before the congressional House Ways and Means Committee. He was scheduled to speak a short ten minute speech, he was granted several time extensions because of the intense interest in his presentation.
Carver was chosen to work with the Bureau of Plant Industry of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1935. In 1939 he received the Theodore Roosevelt Medal for distinguished achievement in science. His closest friend, 1863-1947, was the automobile manufacturer Henry Ford. He was also a valuable friend of inventor Thomas A. Edison, 1847-1931.
Thomas A. Edison was the one who offered to make Carver independent with his laboratories and the same payment of fifty thousand dollars. He was friends with three different presidents. The presidents included Theodore Roosevelt (1858-19190, Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945). He did also have other famous friends.
Carver earned a salary of $125 a month from the start right until the very end of his service at Tuskegee Institute. He was there for forty-six years. In 1940 he had given his life savings, thirty-three thousand dollars, to establish the George W. Carver Foundation at Tuskegee Institute. His savings were to continue researching in chemistry and agriculture. Later he left his entire estate to the foundation, total estimate of about $60 thousand.
At Simpson College a dedication of a building in his honor. A Nobel Prize winner, Ralph Bunche, pronounced Carver “the least imposing celebrity the world has ever known.” His birthplace was made into a national monument on July 14, 1953.
He had made any friends in his lifetime. Carver has an unmarried, shy, and bachelor man. Carver had a close friend, Henry A. Wallace, they knew each other for forty-seven years. In 1908 he went and visited his brother, James, grave in Missouri. He also went and visited his guardian, Moses Carver, he was ninety-six years old at the time.
For the remainder of his life he used his celebrity to promote scientific causes. He wrote a newspaper column and toured the nation. He spoke on the importance of agricultural innovation, the possibilities for racial harmony in the United States, and the achievements at Tuskegee. Carver toured with Southern colleges for the Commission of Interracial Cooperation, from 1923 to 1933.
Carver’s phrase is: ”He could have added fortune to fame, but caring for neither, he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world.” He had established a museum devoted to his whole life's work. In the museum where some of his drawings and his paintings.
A fire had broken out in December 1947, most of the collections were destroyed. A painting of a yucca and a cactus, one of the surviving paintings of George Washington Carver’s work. It’s now displayed at the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893.
During World War II, a senator from Missouri, Harry S. Truman, sponsored a bill in favor of a monument. The bill was passed unanimously in both houses. President Frederick D. Roosevelt dedicated thirty thousand dollars for the monument west of Diamond, Missouri. It was the first national monument dedicated to an African-American. The monument includes a statue of George Washington Carver, a nature trail, cemetery and a museum, 210-acre complex.
In 1948 and 1998, Carver appeared on the United States postal stamps. He also appeared on a half dollar coin, between 1951 and 1954. A George Washington Garden was opened in 2005 from the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis.
George Washington Carver had health problems before the fall. Carver died on January 5, 1943. He was buried in the Tuskegee ground. He died from falling down a flight of stairs. He died from anemia. A maid was the one who found him unconscious. He was buried right next to Booker T. Washington. At the time of the death, Carver was 78 years old.
I picked George Washington Carver for two reasons. One, he had a lot of information. Two, he was the only one I could find that nobody else had. Even though he didn’t invent peanut butter, I think he has a pretty interesting life story. George Washington Carver was a lot of things, a son, a brother, a student, a professor, a slave, and tons of more things. He wasn’t a father or a husband, but he was a really good friend to some amazing and famous people. In his long life he invented many products from peanut, pecans, and sweet potato.
Mrs. DeShambo
English 8
January 13, 2017
He had invented a ton of things with just sweet potato, peanuts, and pecans. He went to college for majoring in art. A couple of his professors got him to change his mind. He went to another college and majored in agriculture. George Washington Carver was born before the Civil War. His exact birth is unknown. He was born in the Kansas Territory near Diamond Grove, Missouri. In 1864, he was born into slavery from his mother and father. He was one of twelve children born from Giles and Mary. His parents were owned by a German American immigrant named Moses Carver. George’s father was killed a little bit before George was born.
Moses and Susan Carver were small-scale farmers, they were …show more content…
successful. The only slaves, Moses and his wife had been Carver’s mother and his older brother. He was not allowed to go to the nearby school because of his color. “Being a sickly child, George was not required to do hard labor, but helped around the house.” (history.com). Carver’s mother had disappeared when George was just an infant. At about the same time Carver’s mother had disappeared, George became orphaned and free.
In 1890, he kept himself busy by doing laundry, cooking, and homesteading just before he finally attended at Simpson College Indianola, Iowa. Once slavery was finally ended Moses and his wife raised him and his brother James. Since there were no local schools for black students at the time, George learned how to write and read from Susan Carver. Carver snuck away from slavery.
“The search for knowledge would remain a driving force for the rest of George’s life.” (biography.com) He left the Carver home to go to a school 10 miles away from the Carver home.
He received his diploma at Minneapolis High School in Minneapolis, Kansas, after attending a series of school. When Carber went to Simpson College he majored in art. Then one professor convinced him to go into agriculture at Iowa State College. George had grown up to be an inventor, educator, scientist, and botanist. George Washington Carver an inventor. An inventor who used one major crop, the peanut, with the use of plastics, gasoline, and dyes to make hundreds of products. George applied at Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts to study. He then was turned down when they learned he was of African heritage. He applied to Simpson College at Indianola, Iowa. He was then the second African American to attend Simpson College. The tuition was twelve dollars a year, so he had to work hard to pay it off. He worked as a cook at Winterset, Iowa, in a hotel to raise the money for his tuition. For three years he attended Simpson …show more content…
College.
He was accepted after trying for the second time at Iowa State. He was in charge of the greenhouse while doing graduate/advance work. He had the respect of all the student body and administration of faculty. In 1896 he got his master’s degree in agriculture.
He moved to Ames, Iowa to begin his botanical studies. “Upon completion of his Bachelor of Science degree, Carver’s professors Joseph Budd and Louis Pammel persuaded him to stay on for a master’s degree. “His graduate studies included intensive work in plant pathology at the Iowa Experiment Station.”(biography.com) In those years, George vested his reputation as a brilliant botanist. To begin the work that he would pursue for the rest of his life. He was offered tons of jobs, but he only accepted one. He took the job of being a professor at Simpson College.
“Said Washington, “I cannot offer you money, position or fame. The first two you have. The last from the position you now occupy you will no doubt achieve. These things I now ask you to give up. I offer you in their place: work-hard, hard work, the task of bringing a person from degradation, poverty, and waste to full manhood. Your department exists only on paper and your laboratory will have to be in your head.” (notablebiographies.com).
Carver boarded on a career researching and teaching, right after graduating from Iowa State. In 1896, the principle of African-American Tuskegee Institute, Booker T. Washington, hired him to run the school’s agricultural department.
Carver was interested in soil conservation and crop rotation.
He extracted a full range of dyestuff from the clay soil of Alabama. Just from pecans he created sixty products. He developed a cereal, coffee from sweet potato. He also made paste, oils, a shoe polish, and about a hundred more products just from the sweet potato.
“In 1916, Carver published a research bulletin, “How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it For Human Consumption.” This bulletin includes several interesting ways to use peanuts like shampoo, mayonnaise, paints and coffee.” (nationalpeanutboard.org)
George Washington Carver invented tons of inventions, just not peanut butter. Peanut butter was originally invented by Lincoln's wife. Lincoln wanted to make it look like a black man had invented peanut butter. He wanted that so that the south would be nicer to the black. But at the night of a play, just as he found a perfect name, he was shot. He was shot in the head by a man named John Wilkes Booth. Years went by, the president at the time, sent a bottle of peanut butter to George W. Carver. Carver went inside with the bottle and said he made it.
Carver published all of his findings in a variety of nearly fifty bulletins. Carver made over 145 products just from peanuts. Carver said that sweet potatoes, peanuts, and pecans could replace cotton as a money
crop.
Leading the passage of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Bill of 1922, in 1921 the testimony of Carver before the congressional House Ways and Means Committee. He was scheduled to speak a short ten minute speech, he was granted several time extensions because of the intense interest in his presentation.
Carver was chosen to work with the Bureau of Plant Industry of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1935. In 1939 he received the Theodore Roosevelt Medal for distinguished achievement in science. His closest friend, 1863-1947, was the automobile manufacturer Henry Ford. He was also a valuable friend of inventor Thomas A. Edison, 1847-1931.
Thomas A. Edison was the one who offered to make Carver independent with his laboratories and the same payment of fifty thousand dollars. He was friends with three different presidents. The presidents included Theodore Roosevelt (1858-19190, Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945). He did also have other famous friends.
Carver earned a salary of $125 a month from the start right until the very end of his service at Tuskegee Institute. He was there for forty-six years. In 1940 he had given his life savings, thirty-three thousand dollars, to establish the George W. Carver Foundation at Tuskegee Institute. His savings were to continue researching in chemistry and agriculture. Later he left his entire estate to the foundation, total estimate of about $60 thousand.
At Simpson College a dedication of a building in his honor. A Nobel Prize winner, Ralph Bunche, pronounced Carver “the least imposing celebrity the world has ever known.” His birthplace was made into a national monument on July 14, 1953.
He had made any friends in his lifetime. Carver has an unmarried, shy, and bachelor man. Carver had a close friend, Henry A. Wallace, they knew each other for forty-seven years. In 1908 he went and visited his brother, James, grave in Missouri. He also went and visited his guardian, Moses Carver, he was ninety-six years old at the time.
For the remainder of his life he used his celebrity to promote scientific causes. He wrote a newspaper column and toured the nation. He spoke on the importance of agricultural innovation, the possibilities for racial harmony in the United States, and the achievements at Tuskegee. Carver toured with Southern colleges for the Commission of Interracial Cooperation, from 1923 to 1933.
Carver’s phrase is: ”He could have added fortune to fame, but caring for neither, he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world.” He had established a museum devoted to his whole life's work. In the museum where some of his drawings and his paintings.
A fire had broken out in December 1947, most of the collections were destroyed. A painting of a yucca and a cactus, one of the surviving paintings of George Washington Carver’s work. It’s now displayed at the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893.
During World War II, a senator from Missouri, Harry S. Truman, sponsored a bill in favor of a monument. The bill was passed unanimously in both houses. President Frederick D. Roosevelt dedicated thirty thousand dollars for the monument west of Diamond, Missouri. It was the first national monument dedicated to an African-American. The monument includes a statue of George Washington Carver, a nature trail, cemetery and a museum, 210-acre complex.
In 1948 and 1998, Carver appeared on the United States postal stamps. He also appeared on a half dollar coin, between 1951 and 1954. A George Washington Garden was opened in 2005 from the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis.
George Washington Carver had health problems before the fall. Carver died on January 5, 1943. He was buried in the Tuskegee ground. He died from falling down a flight of stairs. He died from anemia. A maid was the one who found him unconscious. He was buried right next to Booker T. Washington. At the time of the death, Carver was 78 years old.
I picked George Washington Carver for two reasons. One, he had a lot of information. Two, he was the only one I could find that nobody else had. Even though he didn’t invent peanut butter, I think he has a pretty interesting life story. George Washington Carver was a lot of things, a son, a brother, a student, a professor, a slave, and tons of more things. He wasn’t a father or a husband, but he was a really good friend to some amazing and famous people. In his long life he invented many products from peanut, pecans, and sweet potato.