What did George Washington Carver die of?
I believe the answer about complications from a fall to be correct. Carver literally saved the economy of the South by finding more uses for peanuts than any other scientist. Providing an excellent cash crop that nourished rather than depleting the soil as tobacco and cotton did. He also developed more uses for soybeans, major cash crop of the midwest. Although not awarded more than an earned MA (Honorary Doctorate from Simpson College, 1928, and again from Selma College, 1942 and Fellow, Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, Great Britain, 1928) there are multiple doctorates on his work yearly. He taught at Tuskegee, and only patented three of his formulas and inventions which are used throughout agriculture, industry and chemistry. He was gay and black, both reasons for discrimination, but never came out against it, or up against its worst effects. In many ways he was a renaissance man, a genius who could work with the simplest things and come up with valuable treasures.
