Fred Bear Research Paper

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Fred Bear was born March fifth, 1902 in Waynesboro Pennsylvania. Growing up, he enjoyed fishing, hunting, and trapping with his father, who is the reason why he became interested in these activities in the first place. He began hunting with his dad at six years old. At the age of fourteen, Fred shot his absolute favorite animal to hunt, deer. While hunting, Fred would usually wear a flannel shirt and his signature hat, which looked like a round, black safari hat with a brown band wrapping around the middle along with a feather along the side, Everything him and his dad trapped was sold for money to feed their family. He was always very resourceful making the most of what he had. Growing up, Fred has always had a strong work ethic. When he …show more content…

Shortly after, Bear and his former co-worker, Chuck Adams Worked on raising $1,200 to open an archery business in a garage. In 1933, the company was founded and named “Bear Archery” Shortly after Fred and his wife, Henrietta Bear, moved to Grayling, Michigan where they held residence in a tent in order to save money for their developing business. This became his favorite place to hunt and fish. During this time he had a significant shortage of funds to pay for his everyday expenses, his archery company was plummeting. This had a lot to do with the fact that many states banned hunting using a bow and arrow, and using it to hunt wasn’t very common all …show more content…

Detroit Archers, a small club that Bear was president of for a while has a small collection of his memorabilia, which is located in the club house. The most prized piece was one of his polar bear skins. In the year 2006, the Detroit Archers was robbed, and someone took the polar bear skin. To this day, it has never been found. There is very little known about his family, but what we do know is that besides working on the family farm, Bear’s father built tools in a railroad shed. It’s also interesting to know that great uncle, Daniel Drawbaugh was claimed to be the actual inventor of the telephone. During a trial to decide whether he or Alexander Graham Bell could claim the credit for being the inventor. Drawbaugh was short one vote to be given the credit. The judge who had the deciding vote was found to have large amounts of stock in Bell’s company. This information shows that the creativity, and success runs strongly in Bear’s

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