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Benjamin Gelfman 1899 - 1987

Benjamin Gelfman of Tucson, Pima County, Arizona was born on September 19, 1899, and died at age 87 years old in August 1987.
Benjamin Gelfman
Tucson, Pima County, Arizona 85710
September 19, 1899
August 1987
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    1899

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    September 19, 1899
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    1987

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    August 1987
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    Benjamin Gelfman lived 7 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 87.
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In 1899, in the year that Benjamin Gelfman was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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In 1904, when he was merely 5 years old, 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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