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Adelaide Wallgren 1904 - 2006

Adelaide Wallgren of Lebanon, Lebanon County, PA was born on January 19, 1904, and died at age 102 years old on August 7, 2006.
Adelaide Wallgren
Lebanon, Lebanon County, PA 17042
January 19, 1904
August 7, 2006
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  • 01/19
    1904

    Birthday

    January 19, 1904
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  • 08/7
    2006

    Death

    August 7, 2006
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    Unknown
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    Adelaide Wallgren lived 27 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 102.
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In 1904, in the year that Adelaide Wallgren was born, the "Teddy's Bear" was first produced. After seeing a political cartoon of President Teddy Roosevelt refusing to kill a clubbed and tied up bear, Jewish Russian immigrant Morris Michtom - who owned a candy shop and sold stuffed animals that he and his wife made at night at the store - made a "Teddy's Bear" and put it in his shop's window. The stuffed bears were an immediate success and Michtom and his wife went on to found the Ideal Novelty and Toy Co.
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In 1925, at the age of 21 years old, Adelaide was alive when in July, the Scopes Trial - often called the Scopes Monkey Trial - took place, prosecuting a substitute teacher for teaching evolution in school. Tennessee had enacted a law that said it was "unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school". William Jennings Bryan headed the prosecution and Clarence Darrow headed the defense. The teacher was found guilty and fined $100. An appeal to the Supreme Court of Tennessee upheld the law but overturned the guilty verdict.
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