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Rita A Gilkey 1890 - 1988

Rita A Gilkey of Maquoketa, Jackson County, IA was born on March 6, 1890, and died at age 98 years old on July 15, 1988.

Rita A Gilkey
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Maquoketa, Jackson County, IA 52060
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March 6, 1890
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Rita A Gilkey Rita Gilkey (1890 - 1988)
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In 1890, in the year that Rita A Gilkey was born, on June 1st, the U.S. Census Bureau started tabulating census returns with punch cards. Herman Hollerith's "tabulating machine" used punch cards to more quickly compute census information, taking the time to get census results from 8 years in 1880 to 6 years for the 1890 census. Hollerith's company eventually became IBM.
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In 1904, at the age of merely 14 years old, Rita 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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Gilkey, Harland (Oct 5, 1894 - May 1963) Gilkey, Robert (Sep 20, 1909 - May 1959) Gilkey, Clarence (Jul 14, 1888 - Dec 1974) Gilkey, Ralph (Nov 30, 1919 - Apr 5, 2004) Gilkey, Milton (Jul 4, 1920 - Sep 5, 1996) Gilkey, John (Jan 2, 1875 - Oct 1965) Gilkey, Mary (Apr 10, 1914 - Jul 20, 1997) Gilkey, Herbert (Aug 23, 1911 - Mar 1985) Gilkey, Muriel (Apr 21, 1911 - Aug 1982) Gilkey, Madelyn (Feb 5, 1917 - Feb 1987)
Gilkey, Lillian (May 1, 1883 - Feb 1967) Gilkey, Charles (Jul 3, 1882 - Mar 1968) Gilkey, James (Sep 28, 1889 - Jul 1964) Gilkey, Calma (Apr 22, 1893 - Oct 1979) Gilkey, Richard (Dec 3, 1909 - May 7, 1988) Gilkey, Angeline (Mar 9, 1926 - Aug 2, 1998) Gilkey, Veronica (Aug 28, 1932 - Oct 26, 2004) Gilkey, Raymond (Nov 12, 1920 - Nov 2, 2005) Gilkey, Clara (Jun 2, 1909 - May 28, 2004) Gilkey, Stanley (Aug 17, 1900 - Nov 1979)
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