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Otta Merrill 1896 - 1967

Otta Merrill of Newark, Licking County, Ohio was born on April 18, 1896, and died at age 71 years old in December 1967.
Otta Merrill
Newark, Licking County, Ohio 43055
April 18, 1896
December 1967
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Otta Merrill's History: 1896 - 1967

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  • 04/18
    1896

    Birthday

    April 18, 1896
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  • 12/dd
    1967

    Death

    December 1967
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    Unknown
    Cause of death
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    Otta Merrill lived 3 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 71.
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In 1896, in the year that Otta Merrill was born, in April, the first study on global warming due to CO2 - carbon dioxide - in the atmosphere was published by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius. Arrhenius concluded that human activity due to the Industrial Revolution would amplify CO2 in the atmosphere, causing a greenhouse effect. His conclusions have been extensively tested in the ensuing 100+ years and are still seen to hold true.
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In 1904, Otta was only 8 years old 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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Otta Merrill's Family Tree & Friends

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