Help for the hard times Important to farmers 1910 Hardcover
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(Born into slavery, George Washington Carver (c. 1864-1943...)
Born into slavery, George Washington Carver (c. 1864-1943) later became a botanist and the director of agricultural research at Tuskegee Institute. He developed many products from peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans. This Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 16 pages, consists of three parts. Part I, George Washington Carvers Life and Career first appeared as part of the National Park Services American Visionaries series. Part II, Booker T. Washingtons Recollections of George Washington Carver, first appeared in Washingtons 1911 book My Larger Education. Part III, Selected Recipes of George Washington Carver (including recipes for soups, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, and peanuts), first appeared in Carvers Tuskegee Institute bulletins.
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George Washington Carver was an American botanist and inventor who dedicated his life to applying science and technology toward benefiting the lives of everyday people.
Background
Carver was born into slavery in Diamond Grove, Newton County, near Crystal Place, now known as Diamond, Missouri, possibly in 1864 or 1865, though the exact date is not known.
His mother, Mary, was a slave owned by Moses Carver, and his father was probably Giles, a slave owned by James Grant. According to report, Giles was killed in an accident when George was an infant.
Carver himself became the kidnap victim of night riders while still a baby. With his mother and brother, James, he was held for ransom, but before they were rescued, his mother died. Merely a babe in arms, Carver was ransomed for a $300 racehorse by Moses Carver, a German farmer. Thus he was orphaned and left in the custody of a white guardian from early childhood.
Education
Carver had responsibility for his own education. His first school was in Neosho, lowa, some 9 miles from his home. He and his brother went faithfully to school for several years. Finally James tired of formal schooling and quit to become a house painter, but not George. He continued until he was 17. Then he went on to complete his high school work in Minneapolis, Kans.
Carver really wished to become an artist. His sketch of the rose Yucca gloriosa won him a first prize at the World's Columbian Exposition (1893).
Carver applied to study at the lowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts but was turned down when it was learned that he was of African heritage. He then applied to Simpson College at Indianola, lowa, where he was the second African American to be admitted. Tuition was $12 a year, but even this small amount was hard to come by. Carver raised the money by working as a cook at a hotel in Winterset, lowa.
After 3 years' attendance at Simpson College, he once again applied for admission to lowa State. He was admitted and was placed in charge of the greenhouse of the horticultural department while doing graduate work. He earned his master's degree in agriculture in 1896.
Career
In 1886 he filed a homestead claim for 160 acres (64 hectares) and on it built a sod house.
In less than four years the unproductiveness of barren land drove him back to Iowa.
In one town where he stayed for a while, running a laundry, there lived another George Carver, a white man.
Their mail was often confused, so he added a middle initial, picking "W" at random.
When people assumed that it represented "Washington, " he agreed that it might as well be that.
Consequently, he became George Washington Carver. Combined with his longing for higher education was Carver's desire to paint.
But, even during this year, he still intended to go South and help his own people.
In order to master scientific agriculture at which he had previously dabbled, he transferred in May 1891 to the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts at Ames. The first showing of his paintings of flowers took place at a Cedar Rapids exhibition in 1892.
In April 1896 Carver received a unique offer from the African American educator Booker T. Washington to teach at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
Carver accepted the challenge. He arrived at the tiny railroad station at Chehaw, Ala. , on Oct. 8, 1896.
Through the years Carver was gaining national and international stature. Chinese and Japanese farmers raised many unique problems for him. Questions were referred to him from Russia, India, Europe, South America. He later had to turn down a request to journey to the Soviet Union.
Carver utilized the materials at hand. He was interested in crop rotation and soil conservation. From the clay soil of Alabama he extracted a full range of dyestuffs, including a brilliant blue. He created 60 products from the pecan. From the common sweet potato he extracted a cereal coffee, a shoe polish, paste, oils—about 100 products. From the peanut he developed over 145 products. Carver suggested peanuts, pecans, and sweet potatoes replace cotton as money crops. He published all of his findings in a series of nearly 50 bulletins.
During the wartime food shortage of 1918 he demonstrated in Washington various derivatives of the sweet potato, such as a flour substitute.
The testimony of Carver before the congressional House Ways and Means Committee in 1921 led to the passage of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Bill of 1922. Scheduled to speak a scant 10 minutes, he was granted several time extensions because of the intense interest in his presentation.
In 1935 Carver was chosen to collaborate with the Bureau of Plant Industry of the U. S. Department of Agriculture.
Dr. Carver had earned the salary of $125 a month from the beginning until the end of his service at Tuskegee. He might have had much more. When the banks failed in 1932 and Carver's savings disappeared, he was unconcerned, because he had little personal use for money. In 1940 he gave his life-savings, $33, 000, to establish the George Washington Carver Foundation at Tuskegee Institute to perpetuate research in agriculture and chemistry. He later bequeathed his entire estate to the foundation, making a total of about $60, 000. He died on January 5, 1943.
He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Rochester in 1941.
It was officially dedicated Sunday, July 17, 1960, at Diamond.
Quotations:
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
Membership
In 1916 George Carver was elected a member of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts in England; he went to Washington to the War Department to demonstrate his findings on the sweet potato in 1918.
Personality
An early close friend of Carver was Henry A. Wallace; the pair knew each other for forty-seven years. Wallace said that Carver often took him on botanical (relating to plants) expeditions, and it was he who first introduced Wallace to the mysteries of plant fertilizers. Carver was a shy and modest bachelor, an unmarried man. An attack of whooping cough (a contagious disease that attacks the respiratory system) as a child had permanently caused him to have a high-pitched tenor voice. He considered it a high duty to attend classes and was seldom absent. In 1908 he returned to the West to visit his ninety-six-year-old guardian, Moses Carver, and to visit the grave of his brother, James, in Missouri.
A careful and modest scientist, Carver was not without a sense of humor. When one of his students, hoping to play a trick on him, showed him a bug with the wings of a fly and the body of a mosquito, Carver was quick to label it "a humbug. "
Connections
Carver never married. At age forty, he began a courtship with Sarah L. Hunt, an elementary school teacher and the sister-in-law of Warren Logan, Treasurer of Tuskegee Institute. This lasted three years until she took a teaching job in California.