| c. 1864 | Born in Diamond Grove, Missouri. |
| 1877 | Begins formal education in Neosho, Missouri. |
| 1884 | Attends high school in Minneapolis, Kansas. |
| 1885 | Denied admission to Highland College in Kansas. |
| 1886 | Becomes a homesteader in Ness County, Kansas. |
| 1890 | Enrolls in Simpson College in Iowa. |
| 1891 | Attends Iowa State College of Agricultural
and Mechanical Arts. |
| 1894 | Receives a Bachelor of Agriculture degree.
Becomes a member of the staff. |
| 1896 | Receives a Master of Agriculture degree
from Iowa State. Becomes Director of
Agriculture at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. |
| 1898 | Begins issuing bulletins on his experiment
station work. |
| 1916 | Named to the advisory board of the
National Agricultural Society.
Elected a fellow of England's Royal Society
for Encouragement of the Arts. |
| 1918 | Becomes a consultant in agricultural research
for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. |
| 1921 | Appears before the House of Representatives for
the peanut growers. |
| 1923 | Awarded the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP |
| 1928 | Receives honorary Doctor of Science
degree from Simpson College. |
| 1935 | Works as a collaborator with the Department
of Agriculture. |
| 1939 | Opens George Washington Carver Museum in
a ceremony with Henry Ford. |
| 1943 | Dies on January 5 in Tuskegee, Alabama. |