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Ophelia Smith 1904 - 1979

Ophelia Smith of Shreveport, Caddo County, Louisiana was born on November 10, 1904, and died at age 74 years old in June 1979.
Ophelia Smith
Shreveport, Caddo County, Louisiana 71106
November 10, 1904
June 1979
Female
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Ophelia Smith's History: 1904 - 1979

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    1904

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    November 10, 1904
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  • 06/dd
    1979

    Death

    June 1979
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    Ophelia Smith lived 2 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 74.
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In 1904, in the year that Ophelia Smith 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 1916, at the age of only 12 years old, Ophelia was alive when visiting nurse Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. at 46 Amboy St. in Brooklyn New York. Ten days after the clinic opened, Sanger was arrested for "violating laws against giving out birth control information" which was defined as obscenity. The clinic was not handing out birth control - just information about sex and birth control methods. (The Comstock law categorized information about abortion, family planning, and contraception as “obscene”.) The clinics and organizations that Sanger established later evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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