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Birgit Bergstad 1904 - 1994

Birgit Bergstad was born on June 11, 1904, and died at age 90 years old in September 1994.
Birgit Bergstad
zip code XX703
June 11, 1904
September 1994
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Birgit Bergstad's History: 1904 - 1994

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  • 06/11
    1904

    Birthday

    June 11, 1904
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  • 09/dd
    1994

    Death

    September 1994
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    Birgit Bergstad lived 16 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 90.
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In 1904, in the year that Birgit Bergstad 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 1916, Birgit was only 12 years old when suffragette Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives as a Representative at large from Montana. She was the first woman to hold an elected Federal office. Holding the office for two years, she ran again in 1940 and served another two year term. Montana had granted women unrestricted voting rights in 1914, 6 years before women got the vote nationally.
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