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Lydia Merrick 1890 - 1987

Lydia Merrick of Durham, Durham County, North Carolina was born on November 19, 1890, and died at age 96 years old in February 1987.
Lydia Merrick
Durham, Durham County, North Carolina 27701
November 19, 1890
February 1987
Female
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Lydia Merrick's History: 1890 - 1987

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    1890

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    November 19, 1890
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  • 02/dd
    1987

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    February 1987
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    Lydia Merrick lived 22 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 96.
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In 1890, in the year that Lydia Merrick was born, on June 1st, the U.S. Census Bureau started tabulating census returns with punch cards. Herman Hollerith's "tabulating machine" used punch cards to more quickly compute census information, taking the time to get census results from 8 years in 1880 to 6 years for the 1890 census. Hollerith's company eventually became IBM.
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In 1904, she was merely 14 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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