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Henry Optholt 1904 - 1999

Henry Optholt of Portage, Kalamazoo County, MI was born on December 13, 1904, and died at age 94 years old on August 15, 1999.
Henry Optholt
Portage, Kalamazoo County, MI 49002
December 13, 1904
August 15, 1999
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Henry Optholt's History: 1904 - 1999

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    1904

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    December 13, 1904
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  • 08/15
    1999

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    August 15, 1999
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    Henry Optholt lived 14 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 94.
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In 1904, in the year that Henry Optholt 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 1923, at the age of 19 years old, Henry was alive when the A.C. Nielsen Company was founded in Chicago. It provided an audience measurement system that could provide radio station owners with information on their listeners and the popularity of their shows. Later, the Nielsen company became the basis for the fate of television programs.
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