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Isabel B Erk 1904 - 1988

Isabel B Erk of Honesdale, Wayne County, PA was born on September 10, 1904, and died at age 83 years old on March 12, 1988.
Isabel B Erk
Honesdale, Wayne County, PA 18431
September 10, 1904
March 12, 1988
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  • 09/10
    1904

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    September 10, 1904
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  • 03/12
    1988

    Death

    March 12, 1988
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    Isabel B Erk lived 7 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 83.
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In 1904, in the year that Isabel B Erk 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 1911, Isabel was merely 7 years old when the United States Supreme Court broke up Standard Oil in May. John D. Rockefeller established Standard Oil in 1870 and it was the largest oil refinery at the time. The Supreme Court found that Standard Oil of New Jersey (one of the many iterations of Standard Oil) was guilty of "monopolizing the petroleum industry through a series of abusive and anticompetitive actions". The Court broke up the several entities that comprised Standard Oil and they eventually became competing firms.
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