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Wallace Cook 1904 - 1991

Wallace Cook of Chicago, Cook County, IL was born on December 11, 1904, and died at age 87 years old on December 21, 1991.
Wallace Cook
Chicago, Cook County, IL 60628
December 11, 1904
December 21, 1991
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  • 12/11
    1904

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    December 11, 1904
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  • 12/21
    1991

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    December 21, 1991
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    Wallace Cook lived 15 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 87.
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In 1904, in the year that Wallace Cook 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 1941, when he was 37 years old, on June 25th, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802, prohibiting racial discrimination in the defense industry. EO 8802 was the first federal action to prohibit employment discrimination - without prejudice as to "race, creed, color, or national origin" - in the U.S. Civil Rights groups had planned a march on Washington D.C. to protest for equal rights but with the signing of the Order, they canceled the March.
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