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concept-3063	Smith, Isaac	More Than a Peanut Inventor: George Washington Carver and the Natural Enviornment	2025	25	.pdf	application/pdf	7357	421	63	1 More Than a Peanut Inventor: George Washington Carver and the Natural Environment Isaac Smith History Young George in Nature George Washington Carver was born in a modest “little one-roomed log shanty” on a Missouri plantation near the close of the Civil War.1 Carver’s exact birth date is unknown, but according to Carver, he was around “two weeks old when the war closed,” likely placing his birth in the spring of 1865.2 Carver’s mother, Mary, was the property of Moses Carver, an eccentric bearded German who purchased her as a teenager to labor on his homestead enterprise. George Washington Carver: In His Own Words (University of Missouri Press, 1987), 23.	cache/concept-3063.pdf	txt/concept-3063.txt