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Edwin Leesmann 1904 - 1976

Edwin Leesmann of Augusta, Saint Charles County, Missouri was born on January 12, 1904, and died at age 72 years old in August 1976.
Edwin Leesmann
Augusta, Saint Charles County, Missouri 63332
January 12, 1904
August 1976
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    1904

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    January 12, 1904
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  • 08/dd
    1976

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    August 1976
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    Edwin Leesmann lived 4 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 72.
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In 1904, in the year that Edwin Leesmann 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 1914, he was just 10 years old when President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.
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