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Joseph R Garretson 1904 - 1991

Joseph R Garretson of Pearl River, Saint Tammany County, LA was born on November 6, 1904, and died at age 86 years old on March 20, 1991.
Joseph R Garretson
Pearl River, Saint Tammany County, LA 70452
November 6, 1904
March 20, 1991
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  • 11/6
    1904

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    November 6, 1904
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  • 03/20
    1991

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    March 20, 1991
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    Joseph R Garretson lived 13 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 86.
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In 1904, in the year that Joseph R Garretson 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 1919, when he was merely 15 years old, in the summer and early autumn, race riots erupted in 26 U.S. cities, resulting in hundreds of deaths and even more people being badly hurt. In most cases, African-Americans were the victims. It was called the "Red Summer". Men who were returning from World War I needed jobs and there was competition for those jobs among the races. Tension was heightened by the use by many companies of blacks as strikebreakers.
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