Celebrate National Teddy Bear Day On September 9, 2024!



In 1902, the 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, was on a hunting trip in Mississippi, when he refused to shoot a bear. The owner of a candy store in Brooklyn, New York, named Morris Michtom, read about the incident, and he and his wife, Rose, created a stuffed bear in his honor – Teddy’s Bear.

In honor of National Teddy Bear Day 2024, learn more about bears (and about President Teddy Roosevelt)!