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Due to his frugality, Carver's life savings totaled $60,000, all of which he donated in his last years and at his death to the Carver Museum and to the George Washington Carver Foundation. [ 62 ] On his grave was written, "He could have added fortune to fame, but caring for neither, he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world."
The George Washington Carver Museum, along with the Booker T. Washington home "The Oaks," was then deeded to the people of the United States. Both the museum and The Oaks (the home of Booker T. Washington) were closed to the public in February 1980 to undergo restoration and refurbishing. Restoration was the focus for the museum's exterior.
George Washington Carver was not the inventor of peanut butter. [66] The first peanut butter related patent was filed by John Harvey Kellogg in 1895, and peanut butter was used by the Incas centuries prior to that. [67] [68] Carver did compile hundreds of uses for peanuts, in addition to uses for pecans, and sweet potatoes.
Her son, Bruce Carver Boynton, was the godson and namesake of George Washington Carver. [8] Later they adopted Amelia's two nieces Sharon (Platts) Seay and Germaine (Platts) Bowser. [3] Amelia and Samuel had known the noted scholar George Washington Carver at the Tuskegee Institute, from which they both graduated. [9]
Carver died in January 1943, Ford in April 1947, but the relationship between their two institutions continued to flourish: As recently as the late 1990s, Ford awarded grants of $4 million over two years to the George Washington Carver School at Tuskegee.
In 2004 the remaining 30 acres of the original Moses Carver Farm were donated to the George Washington Carver Birthplace District Association by Evelyn Taylor and her late husband W.J. "Bud" Taylor. The Association later donated the land to the National Park Service, making the 240-acre Moses Carver Farm property complete.
Samuel Washington, more than two years younger than George, died in 1781 and was buried in the cemetery at his Harewood estate near Charles Town, West Virginia.
Moton was a member of the Gamma Sigma graduate chapter of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity, along with George Washington Carver. [8] Moton went on to retire from Tuskegee in 1935 and died at his home Holly Knoll, in Gloucester County, Virginia, in 1940 at the age of 72 where he was buried at the Hampton Institute. Tuskegee Institute named the field ...