Carver

Carver George Washington Carver, an agricultural chemist, the discoverer of three hundred uses for peanuts and the discoverer of hundreds of uses for soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes became one of the most prestigious scientist of his time. George Washington Carver was born Jan.5, 1864 in Diamond Grove Mississippi. His mother was stolen from the plantation when he was a young child . He grew up on the plantation of slave owners Moses and Mary Carver. He had one older brother named Jim Carver. He attended Minneapolis High School in Kansas. At age thirty Carver Attended Simpson College in Indianola Iowa, where he was the first black student. He later transferred to Iowa Agricultural College (now Iowa State University) in 1891 where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1894 and a Master of Science degree in Bacterial Botany and Agriculture in 1897 . George Washington Carver was bestowed an Honorary Doctorate from Simpson College in 1928. He was an honorary member of the Royal Society of Arts in London England .He received the Spingarn Medal in 1923. In 1939 he received carver, washington, science, one, george, being, received, iowa, college, black, american, agriculture, george, simpson, press, polish, plantation, ny, medal, honorary, grove, first, diamond, degree, cotton, attended, young, york, worlds, wood, winning, while, wesley, v5, until