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Laurits Jorgensen 1888 - 1963

Laurits Jorgensen of California was born on September 7, 1888, and died at age 74 years old in March 1963.

Laurits Jorgensen

California

September 7, 1888

March 1963

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September 7, 1888

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1963

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March 1963

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Laurits Jorgensen lived 1 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 74.

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In 1888, in the year that Laurits Jorgensen 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, at the age of 16 years old, Laurits was alive 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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