The Teddy Bear History
In 1902 President Theodore Roosevelt was in Mississippi to settle a border dispute between Louisiana and Mississippi. While there he went on a hunting trip. Members of the hunting party tied a small, black bear cub to a tree for him to shoot. Seeing how helpless the small bear was, he refused.
The next day, cartoonist Clifford Berryman drew a cartoon depicting Roosevelt refusing to shoot the bear. This prompted shopkeeper Morris Michtom to ask his wife Rose to make him a teddy bear, which he placed in his shop window. Morris Michtom contacted the President asking his permission to name the stuffed bear, Teddy. The president agreed and the Teddy Bear was born.
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