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Lela Houston 1904 - 1985

Lela Houston of Highlands, Macon County, North Carolina was born on February 23, 1904, and died at age 81 years old in August 1985.

Lela Houston

Highlands, Macon County, North Carolina 28741

February 23, 1904

August 1985

Female

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February 23, 1904

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In 1904, in the year that Lela Houston 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 1935, by the time she was 31 years old, the BOI's name (the Bureau of Investigation) was changed to the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and it officially became a separate agency with the Department of Justice. J. Edgar Hoover, the Chief of the BOI, continued in his office and became the first Director of the FBI. The FBI's responsibility is to "detect and prosecute crimes against the United States".

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