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Ernest Searles 1897 - 1981

Ernest Searles of Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina was born on April 7, 1897, and died at age 84 years old in April 1981.
Ernest Searles
Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina 29401
April 7, 1897
April 1981
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    1897

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    April 7, 1897
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  • 04/dd
    1981

    Death

    April 1981
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    Ernest Searles lived 10 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 83.
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In 1897, in the year that Ernest Searles was born, on September 21st, editor and publisher Francis P. Church responded to a letter to the editor from Virginia O'Hanlon, 8 years old. Virginia's father had told her that "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." So she wrote to the Sun, asking if there was a Santa Claus. Church responded with the now famous editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".
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In 1904, Ernest was only 7 years old 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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