George Washington Carver

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George Washington Carver

• By Cody Clark Ethan Prather Tyler Roark

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About George Washington Carver

• George was born about 1864 on the Moses Carver
  Plantation in Diamond Grove, Missouri.
• His father died in an accident before his birth.
• Later on, George Washington Carver only at 6
  weeks old and his mother was kidnapped by slave
  raiders.
• He was eventually ransomed for a horse valued at
  300
• He was returned but his mother was never heard
  from again.
• When he grew up where he had an illness from when
  he was a baby he was not able to work in the
  fields, so he had to do chores around the house.

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Continued about George Washington Carver

• He had a lot of time to search threw the woods
  and play. At an early age he became interested in
  plants, and soon became known as the Plant
  Doctor.
• From age 10,his thirst for knowledge and desire
  for formal education lead him to several
  communities in Missouri and Kansas and finally,
  in 1890, to Indianola, Iowa where he enrolled in
  Simpson college to study piano and paintings.

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Achievements

• What carver knew came from 25 years of hard work
  at the Tuskegee Institute, one of the nations
  leading schools for the blacks.
• By early 1918, when world war one was well under
  way, carver had became such a well known
  agriculturalist that the united states department
  of agricultural had began consulting him for ways
  to over come the food shortage

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Continued Agriculture

• Shortly after the war ended his experiments with
  peanuts drew the attention of southern peanut
  growers and processors, who saw him as a good
  spokesman for this industry.

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Nicknames and other information

• He was called the Wizard of Tuskegee.
• He was called the Peanut Man.
• The black De Vinci.
• Carvers date of birth is unknown how ever most
  people think it is around 1864.

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Death

• Returning from home one day, Carver took a bad
  fall down a flight of stairs he was found
  unconscious by a maid who took him to a hospital.
  Carver died January 5, 1943 at the age of 79 from
  complications resulting from this fall.

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George Washington Carver Day!

• George Washington Carver Day is celebrated on
  January 5th because his official birthday is
  unknown.

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Pictures of George Washington Carver

• At Work in his laboratory.
• George Washington carver in 1906.
• George Washington Carver on a Stamp from 1998.

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Final Thoughts

• George Washington Carver was a great black
  American and a great scientist . . .
• And he will be celebrated and remembered for
  years to come.

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Sources

• www.libi.lastate.edu/spcl/gwc/bio.html
• George Washington Carver by Gene Adair
• En.wikipedin.org/wiki/george_washington_carver