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Cyril Gilcrest 1904 - 1977

Cyril Gilcrest of Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County, California was born on July 26, 1904, and died at age 72 years old in May 1977.

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In 1904, in the year that Cyril Gilcrest 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 1943, at the age of 39 years old, Cyril was alive when on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. The same summer, there were riots in Beaumont, Texas and Harlem, New York.
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Gilcrest, Thomas (Nov 9, 1881 - May 1963) Gilcrest, Nye (Sep 29, 1896 - May 1969) Gilcrest, Richard (Jan 26, 1918 - Jan 11, 2011) Gilcrest, Eleanor (Mar 16, 1907 - Mar 1986) Gilcrest, Betty (Nov 1, 1921 - May 17, 1989) Gilcrest, Mary (Jul 10, 1924 - Feb 6, 2004) Gilcrest, Alfred (Sep 25, 1946 - Feb 1975) Gilcrest, Laurence (Mar 6, 1915 - Jan 1, 1993) Gilcrest, Kenneth (Oct 22, 1916 - Nov 12, 2006) Gilcrest, Roger (Sep 29, 1917 - Feb 7, 1993)
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