Teddy bear has been around for over a century and it owes its name to the 26th president of the united stated Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, in 1902 Roosevelt went on a bear hunting trip to settle a border dispute between Mississippi and Louisiana, he did not shoot any bear that day but he saw a wounded young bear and he asked for that bear to be put down humanely so it does not suffer.

The event was publicised by the cartoonist Clifford k Berryman who was working for the Washington post, he drew a cartoon showing Roosevelt and a bear cub sitting on the ground side by side. The whole story gradually with the help of the media gained popularity worldwide and Teddy bear was born .

No one knows for sure when exactly was the first toy bear made, but the first official Teddy bear has seen the light in a small novelty store in Brooklyn, New York owned by Morris Mitchom, his wife Rose was making stuffed bears and Mitchom thought off calling them Teddy bears in reference to the Roosevelt Bear hunting experience, of course Mitchom asked Roosevelt if he could use the Teddy bear name and the president said yes.

Mitchom and his associates the Butler Brothers started the manufacture in mass of  the Teddy bear and others followed bringing new ideas and new materials that kept improving over the years.

Just to know how far goes the popularity of Teddy bear

There are museums just for Teddy bear around the world

You also have the teddy bear cops

The police and the fire department and other government institutions give a child a Teddy bear to calm them during a crisis, an initiative introduced by NAPLC that proved efficient when dealing with children in emergency situations.

Kids love teddy bear and nowadays they even have the chance to create their very own Teddy bear and other stuffed animals of their choice in Build-A Bear Workshop.

A company that was founded By Maxine Clark in 1997 and started trading in saint louis galleria where she opened her first store, there are now 400 hundred stores around the world and the company recently took over the Bear Factory in the United kingdom from Hamleys

Teddy bear has stood the test of time. It is arguably the most popular of all toys.