Date of birth: March 27, 1900
Date of death: February 15, 1973
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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.

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