Liberty Hyde Biography

Being in this group project has not only opened my eyes about the different careers in Agriculture but it has also expanded my knowledge specifically in plant science.

     Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in Harden Country, Kentucky. From an early age he was known as Abe. Lincoln later moved to Kentucky with his parents. Lincoln always wanted to be a

Harriet Tubman was born to a parents who were salves in Dorchester County, Mary Land. While her exact date of

George Washington Carver, one of the many geniuses in the field of agriculture, had a huge impact on America. Carver discovered many uses for peanuts and other common crops. His discoveries benefitted the soil and helped sustain the farmers in the South. Carver became an important figure during the age of industry. George W. Carver was a famous chemist who used his agricultural discoveries and inventions to contribute to education in the South.

He helped get Liberty. He studied the law. He gave his speech on the stamp act “Give me Liberty or give me death”

Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926 to Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee. Her father, a former newspaper editor and proprietor, was a lawyer who also served in the state legislature. Lee grew up in the small southwestern town of Monroeville, Alabama. As a child, Lee was a tomboy and an intelligent reader; she enjoyed the friendship of her schoolmate, Truman Capote.

John Hancock was born January 23, 1737 (according to the Julian calendar that was in use around that time, the date was January 12, 1736) in Braintree, Massachusetts. Hancock was the son of Reverend John Hancock of Braintree, Massachusetts and Mary Hawke Thaxter. After his

The first people to start specializing their plants into actual agricultural crops were still working with mostly wild plants. Over time, they used experimentation to figure out how to make better crops. Controlling

(digitalcollections.lib.iastate.edu) Carver worked on improving soils, growing crops with low inputs, and using species that fixed nitrogen (hence, the work on the cowpea and the peanut). Carver wrote in The Need of Scientific Agriculture in the South: "The virgin fertility of our soils and the vast amount of unskilled labor have been more of a curse than a blessing to agriculture. This exhaustive system for cultivation, the destruction of forest, the rapid and almost constant decomposition of organic matter, have made our agricultural problem one requiring more brains than of the North, East or West." George Washington Carver. This mean’t that the the food varieties he was creating needed more than just him.

Both Franklin and Carver had great success as inventors. However, where Franklin focused on inventions of all aspects, Carver worked in the realm of botany and agriculture. Throughout his career, Carver worked on the problem presented by the soil in the south. Due to overproduction of cotton, the once fertile fields had become dry and unusable. In order to increase production, Carver searched to find a new crop. His answer lay in sweet potatoes, and most importantly, the peanut. (“George Washington Carver”). These crops were able to nourish the soil to its former strength. However, the peanut crop scarcely had demand, so farmers felt there was no need to grow something that could not make a profit. Solving this problem is how George Washington Carver became the “peanut man”. Carver invented over 100 uses for the peanut. These uses included gasoline, plastics, and dyes. Due to Carver’s ingenious ideas, farmers who owned ill-fertilized soil could not grow products for a profit again by interchanging from cotton to peanuts every year. Carver was able to be a benefitting factor in the bettering of the agriculture economy. In fact, by 1920, there were enough peanut farms in the United States to form the United Peanut

Frederick Douglass was born as a slave in Baltimore in 1818. He was raised by his grandparents after separated from his mother when he was only a few

Born Frederick Baily, Frederick Douglass was a slave, his birthday is not pin pointed but known to be in February of 1818. He was born on Holmes Hill Farm, near the town of Easton, Maryland. Harriet Baily was Frederick's mother. She worked the cornfields surrounding Holmes Hill. As a boy, he knew little of his father except that the man was white. As a child, he had heard rumors that

Lewis and Clarke are rewarded for their adventure westward. While in the west, Lewis and Clarke found plants that had never been seen before. The plants excited the members of the American Philosophical Society. At the time of 1806,Americans cannot change the way plants grow.

Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926 in the tiny southern town of Monroeville, Alabama ("Harper Lee"). Her father Amasa Coleman Lee, had many occupations. He was a

Bartram’s Garden, located at 54th Street and Lindbergh Boulevard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, stands upon the home of the late John Bartram, America’s first botanist. Adding to Bartram’s efforts are co-founding the American Philosophical Society, and retains presence in the United States’ scientific community. Bartram’s Garden is a 45-acre botanical site located in Southwest, Philadelphia. Features include historically-preserved buildings, wildflower meadow, freshwater wetland, and a river trail, in addition to the garden itself. Bartram’s field goal was to document every native plant life in America. While Bartram passed away in 1777, the property was cared for by his heirs, and later, purchased by the City of Philadelphia in 1891; the John