(of a stock, group of stocks, etc.) to be priced or show a change in price as specified at the end of a trading period: The market closed low for the fourth straight day. adjective, closer, closest.
George Washington Carver had both parents in his life. His mother was Mary Carver and his father was Giles Carver.
Carver was born in 1864 near Diamond Grove, Missouri, on the farm of Moses Carver. He was born into difficult and changing times near the end of the Civil War. The infant George and his mother kidnapped by Confederate night-raiders and possibly sent away to Arkansas.