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Ruby Merriss 1904 - 1978

Ruby Merriss of Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona was born on October 11, 1904, and died at age 73 years old in March 1978.

Ruby Merriss
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Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona 85364
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October 11, 1904
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In 1904, in the year that Ruby Merriss 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 1911, Ruby was only 7 years old when the United States Supreme Court broke up Standard Oil in May. John D. Rockefeller established Standard Oil in 1870 and it was the largest oil refinery at the time. The Supreme Court found that Standard Oil of New Jersey (one of the many iterations of Standard Oil) was guilty of "monopolizing the petroleum industry through a series of abusive and anticompetitive actions". The Court broke up the several entities that comprised Standard Oil and they eventually became competing firms.
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Merriss, Geoffrey (Oct 20, 1915 - Jan 1987) Merriss, Elisabeth (Sep 12, 1915 - Feb 17, 2007) Merriss, Joan (May 24, 1922 - Aug 7, 2009) Merriss, William (Jul 14, 1914 - Jul 23, 1991) Merriss, Hazel (Oct 14, 1904 - Apr 1987) Merriss, John (May 17, 1889 - Aug 1971) Merriss, Bernard (Jan 26, 1912 - Oct 1984) Merriss, William (May 19, 1910 - Feb 1987) Merriss, Tim (May 8, 1953 - Mar 27, 1994) Merriss, Gladys (Feb 28, 1892 - May 1982)
Merriss, Charles (Feb 9, 1920 - Jul 6, 1974) Merriss, Edith (Apr 12, 1920 - Jan 1981) Merriss, Georgia (Oct 22, 1892 - Feb 1978) Merriss, Donald (Feb 28, 1924 - Nov 1974) Merriss, Donald (Feb 7, 1906 - Jul 1976) Merriss, Norma (Mar 29, 1925 - Nov 27, 2009) Merriss, Thomas (Jul 31, 1923 - Dec 1978) Merriss, Charlotte (Jul 1, 1917 - Mar 13, 2008) Merriss, John (Apr 9, 1917 - Jan 1, 2000) Merriss, Mary (Apr 15, 1915 - Jun 29, 2006)
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