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Roy Carawan 1897 - 1976

Roy Carawan of Metairie, Jefferson County, Louisiana was born on August 23, 1897, and died at age 79 years old in November 1976.

Roy Carawan

Metairie, Jefferson County, Louisiana 70005

August 23, 1897

November 1976

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Roy Carawan lived 8 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 79.

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In 1897, in the year that Roy Carawan was born, in the January 22nd issue of "Engineering", the word "computer" was first used to refer to a mechanical calculation device. Previously - since the 17th century - the term computer meant "one who computes" and referred to human beings who worked with numbers.

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In 1904, Roy was only 7 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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