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Ida Parks 1904 - 1976

Ida Parks of Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa was born on December 20, 1904, and died at age 71 years old in May 1976.
Ida Parks
Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa 50313
December 20, 1904
May 1976
Female
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Ida Parks' History: 1904 - 1976

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  • 12/20
    1904

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    December 20, 1904
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  • 05/dd
    1976

    Death

    May 1976
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    Ida Parks lived exactly as long as the average family member when died at the age of 71.
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In 1904, in the year that Ida Parks 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 1915, at the age of just 11 years old, Ida was alive when the Germans first used poison gas as a weapon at the second Battle of Ypres during World War I. While noxious gases had been used since ancient times, this was the first use of poisonous gas - in this case, lethal chlorine gas - in modern war. Subsequently, the French and British - as well as the United States when they entered World War 1 - developed and used lethal gas in war.
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