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Marietta C Gillies 1904 - 1996

Marietta C Gillies of Rochester, Olmsted County, MN was born on September 3, 1904, and died at age 91 years old on April 22, 1996.

Marietta C Gillies

Rochester, Olmsted County, MN 55904

September 3, 1904

April 22, 1996

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In 1904, in the year that Marietta C Gillies 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 1911, at the age of merely 7 years old, Marietta was alive when the United States Supreme Court broke up Standard Oil in May. John D. Rockefeller established Standard Oil in 1870 and it was the largest oil refinery at the time. The Supreme Court found that Standard Oil of New Jersey (one of the many iterations of Standard Oil) was guilty of "monopolizing the petroleum industry through a series of abusive and anticompetitive actions". The Court broke up the several entities that comprised Standard Oil and they eventually became competing firms.

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