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Herbert Wong 1904 - 1980

Herbert Wong of San Francisco, San Francisco County, California was born on October 20, 1904, and died at age 76 years old in October 1980.
Herbert Wong
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California 94115
October 20, 1904
October 1980
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Herbert Wong's History: 1904 - 1980

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    1904

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    October 20, 1904
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  • 10/dd
    1980

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    October 1980
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    Herbert Wong lived 1 year longer than the average family member when died at the age of 75.
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In 1904, in the year that Herbert Wong 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, Herbert was merely 7 years old when 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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