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Robert Skillings 1888 - 1978

Robert Skillings of Portland, Cumberland County, ME was born on December 12, 1888, and died at age 90 years old in December 1978.
Robert Skillings
Portland, Cumberland County, ME 04101
December 12, 1888
December 1978
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    1978

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    December 1978
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    Robert Skillings lived 16 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 89.
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In 1888, in the year that Robert Skillings was born, on July 25th, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City - Frank Edward McGurrin - decisively beat the competition in a typing contest in Ohio. He was supposedly the only person who used touch typing and is believed to have invented the method. Touch typing is ubiquitous now - but Frank's win is what convinced everyone that the method was good!
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In 1904, he was 16 years old 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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