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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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