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Lena Spirn 1904 - 2009

Lena Spirn of Brooklyn, Kings County, NY was born on January 6, 1904, and died at age 105 years old on March 1, 2009.
Lena Spirn
Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11224
January 6, 1904
March 1, 2009
Female
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  • 01/6
    1904

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    January 6, 1904
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  • 03/1
    2009

    Death

    March 1, 2009
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    Lena Spirn lived 20 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 105.
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In 1904, in the year that Lena Spirn 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, by the time she was only 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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