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May Posmentier 1892 - 1978

May Posmentier of Bronx, Bronx County, NY was born on December 18, 1892, and died at age 86 years old in December 1978.

May Posmentier
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Bronx, Bronx County, NY 10462
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December 18, 1892
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December 1978
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Updated: October 3, 2011
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May Posmentier May Posmentier (1892 - 1978)
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In 1892, in the year that May Posmentier was born, on October 12th, the "Pledge of Allegiance" was first recited in unison by students in U.S. public schools. Composed the previous August by Francis Bellamy, it was to be recited in 15 seconds and originally read: "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." "Under God" was added in the 1950's.
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In 1904, at the age of only 12 years old, May was alive 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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