MORRIS MICHTOM

'Morris Michtom' invented the Teddy Bear.
Morris was selling candy in his shop in Brooklyn by day and making stuffed animals with his wife Rose at night. The Teddy Bear came about in respone to the hunting trip Teddy Roosevelt went on in 1902 where he refused to kill the bear he tracked. After the creation of the bear in 1903, the sale of the bears was so brisk that Michtom created the Ideal Novelty and Toy Company in 1907.