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Claude Tankersley 1904 - 1973

Claude Tankersley of Mertzon, Irion County, Texas was born on September 25, 1904, and died at age 68 years old in May 1973.
Claude Tankersley
Mertzon, Irion County, Texas 76941
September 25, 1904
May 1973
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Claude Tankersley's History: 1904 - 1973

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    1904

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    September 25, 1904
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  • 05/dd
    1973

    Death

    May 1973
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    Claude Tankersley lived 3 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 68.
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In 1904, in the year that Claude Tankersley 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 1911, when he was just 7 years old, the United States Supreme Court broke up Standard Oil in May. John D. Rockefeller established Standard Oil in 1870 and it was the largest oil refinery at the time. The Supreme Court found that Standard Oil of New Jersey (one of the many iterations of Standard Oil) was guilty of "monopolizing the petroleum industry through a series of abusive and anticompetitive actions". The Court broke up the several entities that comprised Standard Oil and they eventually became competing firms.
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