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Rita Potter 1898 - 1978

Rita Potter of Briarcliff Manor, Westchester County, NY was born on August 6, 1898, and died at age 80 years old in October 1978.

Rita Potter

Briarcliff Manor, Westchester County, NY 10510

August 6, 1898

October 1978

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In 1898, in the year that Rita Potter was born, magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company controlled 84% of the oil and pipelines in the United States. Rockefeller grew Standard Oil through the merger of several other small oil companies throughout the U.S., creating a monopoly.

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In 1904, at the age of merely 6 years old, Rita 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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