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Janet Caroline Mawson 1904 - 1977

Janet Caroline Mawson of Coburg, City of Merri-bek County, VIC Australia was born in 1904 in Nagambie, Strathbogie Shire County to Benjamin Bunton Mawson and Jane (Beams) Mawson. She had siblings William Alexander Mawson, Isabella Margaret (Mawson) Taylor, and Harvey Beams Mawson. Janet Mawson died at age 72 years old on December 6, 1977 in Coburg, City of Merri-bek County.
Janet Caroline Mawson
Coburg, City of Merri-bek County, VIC 3058, Australia
1904
Nagambie, Strathbogie Shire County, VIC, 3608, Australia
December 6, 1977
Coburg, City of Merri-bek County, VIC, 3058, Australia
Female
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  • 1904

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    1904
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    Nagambie, Strathbogie Shire County, VIC 3608, Australia
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    1977

    Death

    December 6, 1977
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    Cause of death
    Coburg, City of Merri-bek County, VIC 3058, Australia
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In 1904, in the year that Janet Caroline Mawson 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 1924, she was 20 years old when in May, wealthy college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and killed 14 year old Robert Franks "in the interest of science". Leopold and Loeb thought that they were intellectually superior and that they could commit the perfect crime and not be caught. They were brought in for questioning within 8 days and quickly confessed. Clarence Darrow was hired as their defense lawyer, getting them life imprisonment instead of a death sentence. Loeb was eventually killed in prison - Leopold was released after 33 years, dying of a heart attack at age 66.
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