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Charles Oliver Dowst

Birth: Jul 1852
Illinois, USA
Death: 22 May 1919 (aged 66)
Evanston, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Burial: Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum

Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA Show Map GPS-Latitude: 41.9876611, Longitude: -87.685525
Memorial ID: 51909921 View Source

Dowst (Tootsietoy) Chicago, Illinois
Late 1890s
Founder: Charles O. and Samuel Dowst
Specialty: Miniature cast-metal cars, trains, and planes. Tootsietoy name introduced in 1922 when Dowst introduced a line of doll furniture (named after a Dowst granddaughter, Toots). Merged with Cosmo Mfg. 1926; acquired Strombeck-Becker toy line in 1961 and made a name change as Strombecker Corp.

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