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Wilbur Campen 1887 - 1966

Wilbur Campen of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina was born on May 5, 1887, and died at age 78 years old in February 1966.
Wilbur Campen
Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina 27601
May 5, 1887
February 1966
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    1887

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    May 5, 1887
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  • 02/dd
    1966

    Death

    February 1966
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    Wilbur Campen lived 3 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 78.
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In 1887, in the year that Wilbur Campen was born, on January 20th, the US Senate gave the US Navy the right to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base. Pearl Harbor is on the island of Oahu, a part of the Hawaiian Islands. The Navy was given direction to maintain "a coaling and repair station" at the harbor.
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In 1904, he was 17 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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