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Levi Strauss
Born	February 26, 1829 Buttenheim, Bavaria, German Confederation
Died	September 26, 1902

Levi Strauss, born Löb Strauß (February 26, 1829 - September 26, 1902) was the German-born American^[1] creator of the first company to manufacture blue jeans. Events 747 BC - Epoch (origin of Ptolemy 's Nabonassar Era 364 - Valentinian I is proclaimed For the game see 1829 (board game. Year 1829 ( MDCCCXXIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display Events 46 BC - Julius Caesar dedicates a Year 1902 ( MCMII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting The German people (Deutsche are an Ethnic group, in the sense of sharing a common German culture, descent and speaking the German language as The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Jeans are Trousers made from Denim. Mainly designed for work, they became popular among Teenagers starting in the 1950s. His namesake firm, Levi Strauss & Company, was founded in 1853 in San Francisco. 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

Background

Levi Strauss was born on February 26,1829 to Hirsch Strauss and Rebecca Haas Strauss. His name at birth was Loeb, but when he immigrated to the U. S. , it was changed to Levi. He was born in Buttenheim in Bavaria^[2], Germany. Buttenheim is a Market town in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg and lies in the Regnitz Valley between Bamberg and Nuremberg Bavaria ( German:, with an area of 70553 Km² (27241 square miles and almost 12 Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Young Levi sailed from Bremerhaven to New York where his two older brothers, Jonas and Louis, had already established a successful wholesale textile and tailoring business. Bremerhaven (bʁeːmɐˈhaːfən is the seaport of the free city and federal state of Bremen, Germany. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous After a stay of two days in New York, he continued on to the ranch of his uncle, Daniel Goldman in Louisville, Kentucky. There he spent the next five years learning the language in order that he might someday take over his uncle's ranch. But Levi had dreams of becoming an independent businessman, and for several years he walked the roads of Kentucky, selling notions from the pack on his back.

In 1847, Strauss, his mother and two sisters moved to New York City to join his brothers Jonas and Louis Löb in their dry goods business. The City of New York By 1850 he had adopted the name "Levi Strauss".

In 1853, Strauss became an American citizen^[3]and moved to bustling San Francisco, California, where the California Gold Rush was still in high gear. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city The California Gold Rush (1848&ndash1855 began on January 24 1848 when Gold was discovered by James Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California Levi expected that the mining camps would welcome his buttons, scissors, thread and bolts of fabric; additionally, he had yards of canvas sailcloth intended for tent-making and as covers for the Conestoga wagons that dotted the landscape next to every stream and river in the area. Canvas is an extremely heavy-duty plain-woven fabric used for making Sails Tents Marquees Backpacks and other functions Sails have been made from Cloth for all of recorded history Typically sails were made from Flax ( Linen) Hemp or Cotton in various The Conestoga wagon is a heavy broad-wheeled covered freight carrier used extensively during the United States in the late 1700s and 1800s

Strauss and his brother-in-law David Stern opened a dry goods wholesale business called Levi Strauss & Co. Levi, estimated at about 5' 11" and 185 pounds, was often found leading a pack-horse, heavily laden with merchandise, directly into the mining camps found throughout the region. Wholesaling is the sale of Goods or Merchandise to Retailers to industrial commercial institutional or other professional Business users Levi Strauss & Co (LS&CO is a privately held Clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's brand of Denim Jeans. A draft horse, draught horse or dray horse (from the Anglo-Saxon dragan meaning to draw or haul is a large Horse bred for hard heavy tasks The story goes that both prospectors and miners, often complaining about the easily torn cotton "britches" and pockets that "split right out" gave Levi the idea to make a rugged overall trouser for the miners to wear. Prospecting is the physical search for Minerals Fossils precious metals or mineral specimens and is also known as Fossicking. Mining is the extraction of valuable Minerals or other geological materials from the earth usually (but not always from an Ore body Distinguish from Overhaul. An overall is a type of Garment which is usually used as Protective clothing when working These were fashioned from bolts of brown canvas sailcloth made from hemp, with gold ore storage pockets that were nearly impossible to split. Levi exhausted his original supply of canvas as the demand grew for his hard-wearing overalls, and so he switched to a sturdy fabric called serge, made in Nimes, France by the Andre family. Serge is a type of Twill fabric that has diagonal lines or ridges on both sides made with a two-up two-down Weave. Nîmes ( Provençal Occitan: Nimes in both classical and Mistralian norms is a city in southern France. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Originally called serge de Nimes, the name was soon shortened to denim. Denim is a rugged Cotton Twill Textile, in which the Weft passes under two ( twi- "double" or more warp fibers Denim is a rugged Cotton Twill Textile, in which the Weft passes under two ( twi- "double" or more warp fibers

On May 20, 1873, Strauss and Davis received United States patent #139121 for using copper rivets to strengthen the pockets of denim work pants. 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 The United States Patent and Trademark Office ( PTO or USPTO) is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that issues Patents to Copper (ˈkɒpɚ is a Chemical element with the symbol Cu (cuprum and Atomic number 29 Levi Strauss & Co. began manufacturing the first of the famous Levi's brand of jeans in San Francisco, using fabric from the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in Manchester, New Hampshire. Levi Strauss & Co (LS&CO is a privately held Clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's brand of Denim Jeans. Jeans are Trousers made from Denim. Mainly designed for work, they became popular among Teenagers starting in the 1950s. The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company was a Textile manufacturer which founded Manchester New Hampshire. Manchester is the largest city in the US state of New Hampshire and the largest city of northern New England, an area composed of Vermont,

Levi Strauss died on September 26, 1902 and was buried in Colma. Events 46 BC - Julius Caesar dedicates a Year 1902 ( MCMII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Colma is a small incorporated town in San Mateo County California, at the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula He left his thriving manufacturing and dry goods business to his four nephews—Jacob, Louis, Abraham and Sigmund Stern—who helped rebuild the company after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. The following year, Jacob Davis sold back his share of the company. Jacob W Davis (Youphes was born in Riga, Latvia in 1831 and came to Reno Nevada in June 1868 Today, Levi Strauss & Co. continues to operate as a denim and clothing company.

External links

• Levi Strauss & Company
• Biography of Levi Strauss from the Official Levi Strauss Site.
• Levi Strauss - Biography
• Levi's
• Levi Strauss Museum in Buttenheim, Germany

References

1. ^ Levi Strauss
2. ^ German American Corner: STRAUSS, Levi (1829-1902)
3. ^ Downey, L. "Levi Strauss: A Short Biography", 2005 (accessed at [1] on April 6, 2007)