The teddy bear emerged out of a presidency ... The story caught the attention of Morris Michtom, a candymaker in Brooklyn who thought there might be public interest in a stuffed bear.

The Teddy bear, inspired by the helpless bear a president ... In New York City, Rose Michtom, the wife of Brooklyn candy store owner Morris Michtom, made two stuffed toy bears.

A few months after the bear hunt in February 1903, toy maker Morris Michtom put two stuffed bears in his shop window in ...