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Merritt Hale 1882 - 1969

Merritt Hale of McLeansboro, Hamilton County, Illinois was born on August 30, 1882, and died at age 86 years old in January 1969.
Merritt Hale
McLeansboro, Hamilton County, Illinois 62859
August 30, 1882
January 1969
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Merritt Hale's History: 1882 - 1969

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    1882

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    August 30, 1882
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    1969

    Death

    January 1969
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    Merritt Hale lived 14 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 86.
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In 1882, in the year that Merritt Hale was born, on September 4th, the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in the U.S. - at 255-257 Pearl Street - was flipped by Thomas Edison. It lit one square mile of lower Manhattan and was powered by coal. The "electrical age" had begun.
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In 1904, at the age of 22 years old, Merritt was alive when 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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