HISTORY OF TEDDY BEARS

Teddy Bear was named after American President Theodore Roosevelt when he vehemently refused to shoot a badly beaten bear at a hunting party in Mississipi in November 1902.
This caused a sensation that led to a cartoon by Clifford Berryman titled "Crossing the line in Mississipi".
The cartoon inspired a Newyork shop keeper and his wife, Morris and Rose Michtom to make a stuffed fabric bear in honor of the President. They displayed it with a sign on their shop window that read "Teddy's Bear" in February 1903.
This generated consumer interest and the couple wrote to Roosevelt to ask permission to use his name for their creation which he granted.
They went on to start a successful company manufacturing Teddy Bears.
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