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William Ashton 1899 - 1977

William Ashton of Saco, York County, ME was born on October 23, 1899, and died at age 78 years old in October 1977.
William Ashton
Saco, York County, ME 04072
October 23, 1899
October 1977
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William Ashton's History: 1899 - 1977

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  • 10/23
    1899

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    October 23, 1899
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  • 10/dd
    1977

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    October 1977
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    William Ashton lived 3 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 77.
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In 1899, in the year that William Ashton 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, William was just 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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