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Dessa Herring 1904 - 1982

Dessa Herring of Gettysburg, Adams County, PA was born on September 13, 1904, and died at age 78 years old in December 1982.
Dessa Herring
Gettysburg, Adams County, PA 17325
September 13, 1904
December 1982
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Dessa Herring's History: 1904 - 1982

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  • 09/13
    1904

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    September 13, 1904
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  • 12/dd
    1982

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    December 1982
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    Dessa Herring lived 7 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 78.
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In 1904, in the year that Dessa Herring 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 1933, by the time this person was 29 years old, the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.
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