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Dorcas Shields 1887 - 1982

Dorcas Shields of Jamaica, Queens County, NY was born on November 17, 1887, and died at age 94 years old in August 1982.

Dorcas Shields
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Jamaica, Queens County, NY 11432
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November 17, 1887
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In 1887, in the year that Dorcas Shields was born, on January 28th, the largest recorded snowflakes fell in a snowstorm in Fort Keogh, Montana. They were supposed to have been 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick. A rancher in the area said that they were “larger than milk pans”. A Wild West tall tale? Not according to the Guinness World Records book.
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In 1904, when she was 17 years old, 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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Shields, Sarah (Born Apr 29, 1857) Shields-Hannigan-Munroe, Ella Shields, Dorothy (Born Jan 16, 1916) Shields, Clyde (Born 1920) Shields, Ella (Born Sep 16, 1875) Shields, Olin (Dec 6, 1882 - Oct 1962) Shields, Josephine (Nov 30, 1916 - Nov 8, 1996) Shields, Marie (May 1, 1922 - Oct 1979) Shields, Flora (Oct 10, 1919 - Jun 18, 2009) Shields, Helen (Jun 6, 1896 - Aug 1973)
Shields, Arlene (Sep 1, 1923 - Apr 27, 2006) Shields, Joseph (Oct 13, 1911 - Feb 25, 2005) Shields, John (Jun 10, 1876 - Nov 15, 1966) Shields, Bernice (Sep 20, 1903 - May 28, 1991) Shields, Velma (Apr 8, 1924 - May 17, 2009) Shields, William (Sep 24, 1931 - May 26, 2011) Shields, Hartley (Jul 30, 1916 - Dec 1973) Shields, Edward (Jan 5, 1917 - Jan 29, 1993) Shields, Vernon (Dec 16, 1921 - Aug 1977) Shields, John (Jun 7, 1902 - Sep 20, 1991)
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