Jacob Davis was born in Riga, Latvia and came to Reno, Nevada in June 1868. Riga (Rīga riːga) the Capital of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast on the mouth of the river Daugava. A tailor, Davis used small copper rivets to reinforce and strengthen items including harnesses. A tailor is a person whose occupation is to sew and scissor menswear style jackets and the skirts or trousers that go with them Copper (ˈkɒpɚ is a Chemical element with the symbol Cu (cuprum and Atomic number 29 In 1871, a woman approached Davis to make pants for her husband, who was quite large. Davis decided to use the copper rivets to reinforce the pants for men. Trousers are an item of Clothing worn on the lower part of the body from the waist to the ankles covering both legs separately (rather than with cloth stretching across

At the time, Davis used white duck, a canvas-type material he had bought from Levi Strauss & Co a San Francisco merchant. Canvas is an extremely heavy-duty plain-woven fabric used for making Sails Tents Marquees Backpacks and other functions Levi Strauss & Co (LS&CO is a privately held Clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's brand of Denim Jeans. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city Worried about others pirating his product, he asked Levi Strauss to support him in a patent application. Levi Strauss, born Löb Strauß, ( February 26, 1829 - September 26, 1902) was a German - Jewish immigrant A patent is a set of Exclusive rights granted by a State to an inventor or his assignee for a fixed period of time in exchange for a disclosure of an He offered to share the patent rights with the San Francisco company.

Levi Strauss agreed, and the patent was granted on May 20, 1873. Events 325 - The First Council of Nicaea &ndash the first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church is held Year 1873 ( MDCCCLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common

Davis not only partnered with the company, he moved his family to San Francisco and became production manager for a line of Levi's copper-riveted clothing, a position he held until his death in 1908.