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Wilbur Van Housen 1904 - 1968

Wilbur Van Housen of Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California was born on April 24, 1904, and died at age 63 years old in February 1968.
Wilbur Van Housen
Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California 95404
April 24, 1904
February 1968
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Wilbur Van Housen's History: 1904 - 1968

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    1904

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    April 24, 1904
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    1968

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    February 1968
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    Wilbur Van Housen lived 9 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 63.
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In 1904, in the year that Wilbur Van Housen 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 1927, at the age of 23 years old, Wilbur was alive when aviator and media darling Charles Lindbergh, age 25, made the first successful solo TransAtlantic flight. "Lucky Lindy" took off from Long Island in New York and flew to Paris, covering  3,600 statute miles and flying for 33 1⁄2-hours. His plane "The Spirit of St. Louis" was a fabric-covered, single-seat, single-engine "Ryan NYP" high-wing monoplane designed by both Lindbergh and the manufacturer's chief engineer.
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