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John Chitwood 1888 - 1972

John Chitwood of Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon was born on July 30, 1888, and died at age 83 years old in February 1972.

John Chitwood
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Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon 97216
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In 1888, in the year that John Chitwood was born, on July 25th, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City - Frank Edward McGurrin - decisively beat the competition in a typing contest in Ohio. He was supposedly the only person who used touch typing and is believed to have invented the method. Touch typing is ubiquitous now - but Frank's win is what convinced everyone that the method was good!
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In 1904, John was 16 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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Chitwood, Maybelle (Sep 17, 1908 - Sep 18, 1994) Chitwood, Randolph (Jun 14, 1915 - Aug 29, 2005) Chitwood, Laura (Oct 12, 1899 - Feb 6, 1995) Chitwood, Clara (May 17, 1901 - Nov 23, 1990) Chitwood, Eileen (Nov 12, 1922 - Apr 16, 1991) Chitwood, Harry (Oct 10, 1889 - Aug 1978) Chitwood, Wilhelmina (Oct 25, 1917 - Jul 26, 2004) Chitwood, William (Apr 26, 1905 - Jun 1985) Chitwood, Margaret (Apr 16, 1898 - Mar 1978) Chitwood, Carl (Jun 23, 1898 - Dec 1966)
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