George Washington Carver Childhood

He may have started out as a frail boy who didn’t have a family of his own, but through hard work and a spirit of a lion he kept striving to achieve great things. His name was George Washington Carver, a slave, a boy, and most notably an agricultural chemist. Life in 1864 didn’t start out all that well for little George. George’s momma, Mary was a slave owned by Moses Carver. In 1861 George became an orphan after his momma Mary and he were taken from their owners by a group of rogue bushwhackers. A sick frail George was returned to the family, and Mary was never found. There was not any hope of his father raising him or even getting to know him because he died in a farm accident on a nearby farm where he lived before George was even born. The only thing that made sense at that time was for the Carvers to adopt him into their family. The Carver’s saw something promising and hopeful in a frail boy, a mighty survivor, who would turn out
George Washington Carver devoted his entire life to helping the poor in the south, this is pointed out by both Clare Luce, and Gary Kremer. One of his attributes was his ability to never take no for an answer and always found a way to achieve his dream, always moving forward, and never looking back. Years before George died he left his life’s fortune to the Institute of Tuskegee in Alabama. The “plant doctor” left this world January 5, 1943, and is buried close to Booker T. Washington on the Institute of Tuskegee, a good friend of his. After he died, the first monument dedicated to a black man was established and is located on the grounds of the George Washington Carver National Monument Park. There are so many fantastic products, and discoveries that were left behind by an innovative man. A frail and mighty man proved to the world that anything is possible. (Luce, Kremer et