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Chester Forkum 1904 - 1987

Chester Forkum of Hendersonville, Sumner County, Tennessee was born on January 14, 1904, and died at age 83 years old in June 1987.

Chester Forkum
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Hendersonville, Sumner County, Tennessee 37075
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In 1904, in the year that Chester Forkum 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 1920, by the time he was 16 years old, on January 1, over 6000 people were arrested and put in prison because they were suspected of being communists. . Many had to be released in a few weeks and only 3 guns were found in their homes. The U.S. Department of Justice "red hunt" netted thousands of "radicals" and suspected "communists" and aliens were deported. But the "hunt" ended after Attorney General Palmer forecast a massive radical uprising on May Day and the day passed without incident.
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Forkum, Henry (Mar 13, 1924 - Nov 1968) Forkum, Frances (Feb 23, 1924 - Sep 8, 1990) Forkum, Henry (Apr 30, 1934 - Apr 17, 2004) Forkum, George (Jun 15, 1893 - Oct 1967) Forkum, George (May 4, 1921 - Nov 1972) Forkum, Sharon (Oct 10, 1945 - Mar 4, 2011) Forkum, Dorthea (Apr 30, 1921 - Dec 20, 2004) Forkum, Effie (Nov 14, 1902 - Aug 1968) Forkum, Delores (Jul 30, 1915 - May 27, 2000) Forkum, Irene (Sep 23, 1913 - Mar 7, 1994)
Forkum, Richard (Sep 16, 1955 - Jun 15, 2004) Forkum, Joan (Aug 5, 1928 - Aug 23, 2005) Forkum, Carl (Dec 12, 1918 - Apr 1984) Forkum, Evelene (Jan 4, 1910 - Apr 2, 2002) Forkum, Neatrice (Nov 4, 1929 - May 8, 1994) Forkum, Walter (May 28, 1903 - Aug 18, 1997) Forkum, Helen (Jan 1, 1936 - Jun 5, 2009) Forkum, William (Feb 23, 1925 - Mar 26, 1999) Forkum, Joseph (Oct 7, 1892 - Sep 1984) Forkum, John (Oct 13, 1952 - Oct 7, 2007)
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