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Orval Purcell 1904 - 1975

Orval Purcell of Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana was born on August 2, 1904, and died at age 71 years old in November 1975.
Orval Purcell
Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana 47807
August 2, 1904
November 1975
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    1904

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    August 2, 1904
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  • 11/dd
    1975

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    November 1975
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    Orval Purcell lived 2 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 71.
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In 1904, in the year that Orval Purcell 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 1929, he was 25 years old when on March 4th, Herbert Hoover became the 31st President of the United States. Early in his presidency, the October stock market crash - "Black Tuesday" - occurred, which lead to the Great Depression. None of his economic policies were able to make a dent in the Depression. This lead to one term and the election of Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt winning the 1933 election in a landslide.
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