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Alva Richey 1904 - 1977

Alva Richey of Houston, Harris County, Texas was born on September 23, 1904, and died at age 72 years old in August 1977.
Alva Richey
Houston, Harris County, Texas 77036
September 23, 1904
August 1977
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Alva Richey's History: 1904 - 1977

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    1904

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    September 23, 1904
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  • 08/dd
    1977

    Death

    August 1977
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    Alva Richey lived 1 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 72.
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In 1904, in the year that Alva Richey 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, when he was just 7 years old, 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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