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Myer Yoelson 1904 - 1953

Myer Yoelson was born in 1904 in Washington, District Of Columbia United States to Moses Rubin Yoelson and Chyesa (Yovels) Yoelson, and had siblings George Jolson, Emil Yoelson, and Gertrude (Yoelson) Sollod. Myer Yoelson died at age 48 years old on September 4, 1953 in Washington.

Myer Yoelson
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In 1904, in the year that Myer Yoelson 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 1912, at the age of merely 8 years old, Myer was alive when New Mexico became the 47th state of the Union in January. Previously a province of Mexico, then a territory of the United States and mostly populated by Native Americans and Mexicans, once it became a U.S. territory it was increasingly colonized by European-American settlers. Its population was over 327,000 when it became a state.
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Yoelson, George (Dec 5, 1905 - Jan 1972) Yoelson, Anna (Feb 18, 1920 - Dec 27, 1997) Yoelson, Frieda (Dec 19, 1901 - Aug 15, 1984) Yoelson, Ruth (Mar 26, 1905 - Apr 1981) Yoelson, Esther (Sep 8, 1897 - Jan 14, 1990) Yoelson, Herman (Nov 6, 1900 - May 2, 1993) Yoelson, Elisabeth (Jul 8, 1908 - Feb 1987) Yoelson, Ruth (Oct 23, 1902 - Oct 25, 2003) Yoelson, Micheal (May 31, 1940 - May 2, 2006) Yoelson, Joseph (Oct 14, 1904 - May 1984)
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