Grin and Bear It

It is said while on a hunting trip, US President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt refused to shoot a young bear. This became the subject of a famous cartoon by Clifford K. Berryman, published in the Washington Post on November 16, 1902. Immediately afterwards, Morris Michtom, a New York shopkeeper (and later founder of the Ideal Toy and Novelty Company) made stuffed bears and with Roosevelt's permission- began advertising them as "Teddy's Bears". At about the same time, Margarete Steiff, a German toymaker, began making her first toy bears, exporting them to the US to meet the demand "Teddy Bears" had created. The art of collecting Teddy Bears is called arctophily.

Link: "Teddy Bear"