George Washington Carver By Nick and Derek June 22, 2005 Dr Williams NS 241 C.H.A.S.E

Early Years Born: 1861 at Diamond Grove, MO 2 nd of three children Father was killed when he was an infant Kidnapped and were taken to Arkansas by slave raiders (but was returned back in exchange for a 300-dollar race horse.

Education Background As a young child, he was interested in all types of plants At age 14, he left home for school Attended schools in Olathe, and grade school in Neosho MO, Fort Scott, Paola and Olathe, KS Received his high school in Minneapolis KS.

Later Years During his teen years, he took on the name George “Washington” Carver. - The reason was because there was another student name George Carver He also became interested in cooking, knitting, and crocheting.

Later On he was refused admittance to Homestead College because he was black Also he tried farming, but did not like the blistering sun and cold winters.

1891 -at 30, he went to Iowa State to complete his B.S. and M.S. in Agriculture After that, he went to teach school at Tuskegee College in Alabama teaching Agriculture.

Discoveries Three hundred uses of peanuts Hundred uses of soybeans, pecans, and sweet potatoes Decline $100,000 salary a year

Recipes and Improvements adhesives axle grease bleach buttermilk chili sauce fuel briquettes ink instant coffee linoleum mayonnaise meat tenderizer metal polish paper and plastic pavement and oils shaving cream shoe polish synthetic rubber wood stain

Crop Rotation Method Developed in Tuskegee Educated farmers to alternate soil- depleting with soil-enriching crops Cotton to peanuts, peas, soybeans, sweet potatoes, and pecans

Inventions Textile dyes of 500 different shades Paints and stains from soybeans in 1927 Received 3 separate patents: –Cosmetics on January 6, 1925 –Paint and stain on June 9, 1925 –Producing paint and stain on June 14, 1927

Discoveries to Mankind “God gave them to me…how can I sell them to someone else?” 1940 establishment of the Carver Research Foundation at Tuskegee

Other Achievements Honorary doctorate Simpson College 1928 Honorary member Royal Society of Arts in London, England Spingarn Medal 1923 Roosevelt Medal for restoring southern agriculture 1939 National monument 1943

Famous Quotes “It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These means nothing. It is simply service that measures success.” Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

Quotes continued… “The primary idea in all of my work was to help the farmer and fill the poor man’s empty dinner pail…My idea is to help the man farthest down, this is why I have made every process just as simply as I could to put it within his reach.”