We have a trio of interesting birthdays and the Kentucky Connection to the teddy bear.

Our Toby Gibbs tells us more in tonight's Look at this week in Kentucky history.

Happy birthday to Louis Brandeis.

US Supreme Court Associate Justice, Born November 13th, 1856, in Louisville.

President Woodrow Wilson appointed Brandeis to the court in 1916.

He served until 1939.

He was the first Jewish appointee to the court.

Abraham Lincoln's friend Joshua Speed, was born November 14th, 1814, in Louisville.

In 1835, he moved to Springfield, Illinois, where he and Lincoln became friends.

Speed served as an advisor to the president during the Civil War.

Speed declined Lincoln's multiple offers to make him secretary of the Treasury.

When President Theodore Roosevelt refused to shoot a cornered bear while hunting, it inspired a Washington Post editorial cartoon published November 16th, 1902, drawn by Woodford County native Clifford Berryman.

The cartoon led to the creation of the toy known as the Teddy Bear.

The other president, Roosevelt, was in Harrodsburg 32 years later, on November 16th, 1934.

FDR dedicated the George Rogers Clark Monument to honor the first permanent settlement west of the Allegheny Mountains.

The man being honored that day, George Rogers Clark, was born November 19, 1752, in Virginia.

He first visited Kentucky at the age of 20 and eventually moved here and helped establish Louisville when he was 26.

General and Explorer, he is the namesake for Clark County, and he's the brother of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark fame.

And that's tonight's Look Back at This Week in Kentucky History.

I'm Toby.

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