Margaret Mary Hughes (1880 - 1949)

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Margaret's Parents

Kelly James Hughes

Catherine Mcginness Hughes

Margaret Mary Hughes

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Kelly James Hughes

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Catherine Mcginness Hughes

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Margaret's Parents

Inkster Frederick Hughes

Margaret Mary Moss Hughes

Margaret Mary Hughes

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Inkster Frederick Hughes

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Margaret Mary Moss Hughes

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Rosalie Cotich Hughes

Rosalie Cotich Hughes

Rosalie Cotich Hughes

Rosalie Cotich Hughes, 1930s

Edward Francis Hughes

Edward Francis Hughes

Four Generations

Baby Boy Hughes

Eva Faye Douglas McCcoy

Eldred Eugene Hughes

Eldred Eugene Hughes

Lester Hughes Sr relatives

Florence Hughes- Wasler

Frederick Leonard Hughes

Cecile Hughes

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In 1880, in the year that Margaret Mary Hughes was born, on February 2nd the city of Wabash, Indiana became the third city in the world to be lit by electricity.

In 1896, at the age of 16 years old, Margaret was alive when on January 4th, Utah became the 45th state in the United States. After the LDS Church banned polygamy in 1890, Utah's application for statehood became acceptable to Congress and the Utah Territory became Utah..

In 1904, Margaret was 24 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.

In 1920, she was 40 years old when Italian born factory worker Nicola Sacco and fish peddler Bartolomeo Vanzetti were picked up by police on May 5th in connection with the April 15th murder and robbery of a guard and a paymaster at the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in South Braintree, Mass. Although in later years they were thought to be innocent, they were anarchists and were convicted of the crime and put to death.

In 1949, in the year of Margaret Mary Hughes's passing, comedian Milton Berle hosted the first telethon show. It raised $1,100,000 for cancer research and lasted 16 hours. The next day, newspapers, in writing about the event, first used the word "telethon."