Author: Theodore A. Lehmann
Alternate names: Teddy
Born: March 27, 1900
Died: February 15, 1973
Bio: Son of Theodore Lehmann and his wife Paulien Schalaer; children of German and Swiss emigrants.  His father owned a butcher shop in the Cypress Hills neighborhood of Brooklyn.  Teddy never married and the census indicates he taught music from his parent's home.  A cousin recalls him as a violinist. His younger cousins vividly recalled him reciting his poems to his dog Woolly.