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Wilda Callen 1899 - 1985

Wilda Callen of Vandergrift, Westmoreland County, PA was born on August 22, 1899, and died at age 86 years old in December 1985.
Wilda Callen
Vandergrift, Westmoreland County, PA 15690
August 22, 1899
December 1985
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    1899

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    August 22, 1899
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  • 12/dd
    1985

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    December 1985
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    Wilda Callen lived 13 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 86.
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In 1899, in the year that Wilda Callen was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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In 1904, at the age of merely 5 years old, Wilda was alive 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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