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Lena Porter 1904 - 2004

Lena Porter of Roslindale, Suffolk County, MA was born on July 21, 1904, and died at age 100 years old on December 8, 2004.
Lena Porter
Roslindale, Suffolk County, MA 02131
July 21, 1904
December 8, 2004
Female
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  • 07/21
    1904

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    July 21, 1904
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  • 12/8
    2004

    Death

    December 8, 2004
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    Lena Porter lived 28 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 100.
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In 1904, in the year that Lena Porter 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 1916, when she was merely 12 years old, in June, the U.S. Congress authorized a plan to expand the armed forces over the next five years. Called the National Defense Act of 1916, the national law expanded the National Guard and Army (the Army added an aviation unit), created the Reserves, and gave the President expanded authority to federalize the National Guard. It also allowed the government to stockpile, in advance, materiel to be used in wartime.
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