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Dora Merriam 1888 - 1977

Dora Merriam of Waterford, New London County, CT was born on August 29, 1888, and died at age 88 years old in March 1977.

Dora Merriam

Waterford, New London County, CT 06385

August 29, 1888

March 1977

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August 29, 1888

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March 1977

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Dora Merriam lived 12 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 88.

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In 1888, in the year that Dora Merriam was born, Irishman John Robert Gregg published a pamphlet in the U.S., teaching his first version of shorthand - Gregg shorthand. When he improved on the first version and published it 5 years later, Gregg shorthand became popular.

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In 1904, at the age of 16 years old, Dora was alive when 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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