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- Letter from Henry Ford to Frederick Douglass Patterson, January 8, 1943 - George Washington Carver died January 5, 1943. After hearing the news, his friend Henry Ford sent a letter of sympathy and appreciation to Frederick Douglass Patterson, president of the Tuskegee Institute, the university in Alabama where Carver had worked since 1896. Ford and the noted agricultural scientist had been friends and colleagues since the late 1930s.
- January 08, 1943
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Letter from Henry Ford to Frederick Douglass Patterson, January 8, 1943
George Washington Carver died January 5, 1943. After hearing the news, his friend Henry Ford sent a letter of sympathy and appreciation to Frederick Douglass Patterson, president of the Tuskegee Institute, the university in Alabama where Carver had worked since 1896. Ford and the noted agricultural scientist had been friends and colleagues since the late 1930s.