Rose et morris michtom biography
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Teddy Bear
--PRESIDENT CALLED AFTER THE BEAST HAD BEEN LASSOED, BUT HE REFUSED TO MAKE AN UNSPORTSMANLIKE SHOT--
This was the headline of the Washington Post on November 15, 1902 when President Theodore Roosevelt refused to shoot a 235-pound black bear that had been tied to a tree. When encouraged to shoot it, the President is rumored to have said, "I've hunted game all over America and I'm proud to be a hunter. But I couldn't be proud of myself if I shot an old, tired, worn-out bear that was tied to a tree."
A famous political cartoonist for the Washington Star, Clifford Berryman, picked up on the President's refusal to shoot the bear, and used it as a metaphor for Roosevelt's indecision over a Mississippi boundary dispute. Berryman's cartoon soon became well known throughout the United States and inspired Brooklyn candy store owners Rose and Morris Michtom to make the first stuffed bear toy, which they appropriately named Theodore Roosevelt. Before making additional bears, Morris Michtom wrote to Roosevelt to ask his permission to make a small bear cub and call it "Teddy's Bear." His son, Benjamin Michtom, said that although Roosevelt agreed to lend his name to the new invention he doubted it would ever amount to much in the toy business. In 1903, the I
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Morris Michtom
American toy inventor
Morris Michtom | |
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Michtom in New York | |
| Born | September 12, 1869 (1869-09-12) Russia |
| Died | July 21, 1938(1938-07-21) (aged 68) Brooklyn, New York |
| Occupation(s) | Inventor, businessman |
| Spouse | Rose |
| Children | Emily (1897–1986) and Joseph (1890–1951) |
Morris Michtom (September 12, 1869 – July 21, 1938)[1][2] was a Russian-born businessman and inventor who, with his wife Rose, also a Russian Jewish immigrant who lived in Brooklyn, came up with the idea for the teddy bear in 1902[3] around the same time as Richard Steiff in Germany. They founded the Ideal Novelty and Toy Company which, after Michtom's death, became the largest doll-making company in the United States.
Biography
[edit]Michtom was born into a Jewish family[4][3] on September 12, 1869, and immigrated to New York in 1887, when he also married his wife, Rose Katz (1867–1937), who was born in Romania. He sold candy in his shop at 404 Tompkins Avenue[5] in Bedford-StuyvesantBrooklyn by day and made stuffed animals with his wife Rose at night.
The teddy bear was inspired by a cartoon by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Clifford K. Berryman depicting American presidentThe
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