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Eva Harris 1904 - 1996

Eva Harris of Murphysboro, Jackson County, IL was born on February 29, 1904, and died at age 92 years old on September 18, 1996.
Eva Harris
Murphysboro, Jackson County, IL 62966
February 29, 1904
September 18, 1996
Female
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  • 02/29
    1904

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    February 29, 1904
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  • 09/18
    1996

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    September 18, 1996
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    Eva Harris lived 21 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 92.
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In 1904, in the year that Eva Harris 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 1933, at the age of 29 years old, Eva was alive when Frances Perkins became the first woman to hold a cabinet-level position, appointed by President Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor. She told him that her priorities would be a 40-hour work week, a minimum wage, unemployment compensation, worker’s compensation, abolition of child labor, direct federal aid to the states for unemployment relief, Social Security, a revitalized federal employment service, and universal health insurance. President Roosevelt approved of all of them and most them were implemented during his terms as President. She served until his death in 1945.
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