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Leonard Brown 1888 - 1977

Leonard Brown of Portland, Sumner County, Tennessee was born on December 23, 1888, and died at age 88 years old in January 1977.
Leonard Brown
Portland, Sumner County, Tennessee 37148
December 23, 1888
January 1977
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Leonard Brown's History: 1888 - 1977

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    1888

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    December 23, 1888
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  • 01/dd
    1977

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    January 1977
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    Leonard Brown lived 17 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 88.
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In 1888, in the year that Leonard Brown 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, Leonard was 16 years old 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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