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Elva E Wall 1904 - 1989

Elva E Wall of Chicago, Cook County, IL was born on August 20, 1904, and died at age 84 years old in February 1989.
Elva E Wall
Chicago, Cook County, IL 60628
August 20, 1904
February 1989
Female
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    1904

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    August 20, 1904
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  • 02/dd
    1989

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    February 1989
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    Elva E Wall lived 11 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 84.
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In 1904, in the year that Elva E Wall 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 1922, at the age of 18 years old, Elva was alive when on June 22, coal miners in Herrin Illinois, were on strike (coal miners had been on strike nationally since April 1). The striking miners were outraged at the strikebreakers (scabs) that the company had brought in and laid siege to the mine. Three union workers were killed when gunfire was exchanged. The next day, union miners killed 23 strikebreakers and mine guards. No one, on either side, ever faced jail time.
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