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James Atkinson 1890 - 1966

James Atkinson of East Prairie, Mississippi County, Missouri was born on April 22, 1890, and died at age 76 years old in November 1966.
James Atkinson
East Prairie, Mississippi County, Missouri 63845
April 22, 1890
November 1966
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    1890

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    April 22, 1890
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  • 11/dd
    1966

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    November 1966
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    James Atkinson lived 3 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 76.
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In 1890, in the year that James Atkinson was born, on December 29th, the Wounded Knee Massacre occurred in South Dakota on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation . The U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment said that they rode into the Lakota camp "trying to disarm" the inhabitants. One person, Black Coyote - who was deaf - held onto his rifle, saying that he paid a lot of money for it. Shots rang out and by the end at least 153 Lakota Sioux - some estimates say 300 - and 25 troops had died. The site of the massacre is a National Historic Landmark.
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In 1904, at the age of just 14 years old, James was alive 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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