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Bertha Macdonald 1904 - 1984

Bertha Macdonald of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA was born on January 9, 1904, and died at age 80 years old in April 1984.
Bertha Macdonald
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA 19120
January 9, 1904
April 1984
Female
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    1904

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    January 9, 1904
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  • 04/dd
    1984

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    April 1984
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    Bertha Macdonald lived 5 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 80.
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In 1904, in the year that Bertha Macdonald 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 1916, at the age of merely 12 years old, Bertha was alive when in June, the U.S. Congress authorized a plan to expand the armed forces over the next five years. Called the National Defense Act of 1916, the national law expanded the National Guard and Army (the Army added an aviation unit), created the Reserves, and gave the President expanded authority to federalize the National Guard. It also allowed the government to stockpile, in advance, materiel to be used in wartime.
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