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Elsie Shaffer 1904 - 1972

Elsie Shaffer of Reading, Berks County, PA was born on June 15, 1904, and died at age 68 years old in June 1972.
Elsie Shaffer
Reading, Berks County, PA 19602
June 15, 1904
June 1972
Female
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Elsie Shaffer's History: 1904 - 1972

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    1904

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    June 15, 1904
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  • 06/dd
    1972

    Death

    June 1972
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    Elsie Shaffer lived 6 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 67.
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In 1904, in the year that Elsie Shaffer 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 1912, at the age of just 8 years old, Elsie was alive when the Girl Scouts of the USA was started by Juliette Gordon Low with the help of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Boy Scouts in Great Britain. She said after a meeting with Baden-Powell, "I've got something for the girls of Savannah, and all of America, and all the world, and we're going to start it tonight!" And she did.
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