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Jessie B Owens 1882 - 1969

Jessie B Owens of Steubenville, Jefferson County, OH was born on November 13, 1882, and died at age 86 years old on January 15, 1969.
Jessie B Owens
Steubenville, Jefferson County, OH 43952
November 13, 1882
January 15, 1969
Female
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    1882

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    November 13, 1882
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  • 01/15
    1969

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    January 15, 1969
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    Jessie B Owens lived 16 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 86.
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In 1882, in the year that Jessie B Owens was born, on September 4th, the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in the U.S. - at 255-257 Pearl Street - was flipped by Thomas Edison. It lit one square mile of lower Manhattan and was powered by coal. The "electrical age" had begun.
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In 1904, Jessie was 22 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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