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James Parr 1897 - 1983

James Parr of Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan was born on July 23, 1897, and died at age 85 years old in April 1983.
James Parr
Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan 48226
July 23, 1897
April 1983
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    1897

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    July 23, 1897
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    1983

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    April 1983
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    James Parr lived 12 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 85.
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In 1897, in the year that James Parr 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, he was just 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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