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Margaret Bentlage 1904 - 1999

Margaret Bentlage of Richmond, Wayne County, IN was born on August 19, 1904, and died at age 95 years old on December 15, 1999.
Margaret Bentlage
Richmond, Wayne County, IN 47374
August 19, 1904
December 15, 1999
Female
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Margaret Bentlage's History: 1904 - 1999

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  • 08/19
    1904

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    August 19, 1904
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  • 12/15
    1999

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    December 15, 1999
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    Margaret Bentlage lived 22 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 95.
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In 1904, in the year that Margaret Bentlage 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 1916, Margaret was merely 12 years old when suffragette Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives as a Representative at large from Montana. She was the first woman to hold an elected Federal office. Holding the office for two years, she ran again in 1940 and served another two year term. Montana had granted women unrestricted voting rights in 1914, 6 years before women got the vote nationally.
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