George Washington Carver By Teresa Rogers George Washington Carver was born in about 1864 (the exact year is unknown) on the Moses Carver plantation in Diamond Grove, Mo. His father died in an accident shortly before his birth, and when he was still an infant, Carver and his mother were kidnapped by slave raiders. The baby was returned to the plantation, but his mother was never heard from again. Carver grew to be a student of …showed first 75 words of 877 total…

…showed last 75 words of 877 total…and a fifty-cent coin in 1951. He was elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1977 and inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990. In 1994, Iowa State awarded him the degree, Doctor of Humane Letters. I thought this was a good book because it had a lot of information and had many different ideas of ways to use peanuts. This would be a good book for people who like to read biographies.