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Rom Murphy 1899 - 1987

Rom Murphy of Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina was born on May 10, 1899, and died at age 88 years old in July 1987.
Rom Murphy
Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina 28501
May 10, 1899
July 1987
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Rom Murphy's History: 1899 - 1987

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  • 05/10
    1899

    Birthday

    May 10, 1899
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  • 07/dd
    1987

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    July 1987
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    Rom Murphy lived 16 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 88.
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In 1899, in the year that Rom Murphy was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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In 1904, this person was merely 5 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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