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Sigvald Torgeson 1904 - 1996

Sigvald Torgeson of Rockville Centre, Nassau County, NY was born on April 18, 1904, and died at age 91 years old on January 20, 1996.

Sigvald Torgeson
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Rockville Centre, Nassau County, NY 11570
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April 18, 1904
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In 1904, in the year that Sigvald Torgeson 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 1910, at the age of only 6 years old, Sigvald was alive when Thomas Edison introduced his kinetophone, which he hoped would make "talkies" a reality. But the sound wasn't synchronized to the pictures and only 45 Kinetophones were made.
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Torgeson, Ruth (Sep 27, 1917 - Jan 16, 2004) Torgeson, Dorothy (Feb 25, 1909 - Jan 1991) Torgeson, Hildegard (Sep 8, 1902 - Mar 31, 1994) Torgeson, Sonia (Sep 6, 1932 - Feb 17, 1993) Torgeson, Richard (Nov 17, 1908 - Nov 1986) Torgeson, Florence (Jun 22, 1902 - Oct 1973) Torgeson, George (Nov 15, 1910 - May 1975) Torgeson, Karen (Apr 2, 1909 - Aug 24, 2000) Torgeson, Maryon (Sep 10, 1919 - Sep 27, 1992) Torgeson, Charlotte (Jul 23, 1905 - Mar 22, 1990)
Torgeson, Ethel (Sep 19, 1909 - Apr 1, 2001) Torgeson, Theodore (Oct 16, 1928 - May 1971) Torgeson, Paul (Nov 8, 1906 - Jun 1985) Torgeson, Juliet (Mar 24, 1891 - Dec 1965) Torgeson, Loa (Oct 6, 1913 - Jun 1986) Torgeson, Theodore (Aug 27, 1924 - Jan 25, 2006) Torgeson, Everett (Mar 2, 1914 - Jun 26, 2002) Torgeson, Kenneth (Jan 26, 1913 - May 1996) Torgeson, James (Feb 16, 1941 - Oct 1977) Torgeson, Philip (Mar 25, 1951 - May 23, 2005)
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