Levi Strauss was a German-born American businessman who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans.
12 Facts About Levi Strauss
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Levi Strauss was born to a Jewish family in Buttenheim on February 26,1829, in the Franconia region of the Kingdom of Bavaria in the German Confederation.
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Levi Strauss was the son of Hirsch Strauss and his second wife Rebecca Strauss.
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Levi Strauss was chosen to represent them, and he took a steamship for San Francisco, where he arrived in early March 1854 and joined his sister's family.
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Levi Strauss made tents and later jeans while he lived with Fanny's growing family.
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Jacob W Davis was one of his customers and the inventor of riveted denim pants, and in 1871, he went into business with Strauss to produce blue jeans.
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Levi Strauss died on September 26,1902, and was buried in the Home of Peace Cemetery in Colma, California.
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Levi Strauss left his company to his four nephews, Jacob, Sigmund, Louis, and Abraham Stern, the sons of his sister Fanny and her husband David Stern.
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Levi Strauss's estate was worth about $6 million.
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Levi Strauss gave money to several charities, including special funds for orphans.
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The Levi Strauss Foundation started with an 1897 donation to the University of California, Berkeley, that provided the funds for 28 scholarships.
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The Levi Strauss museum is located in the 1687 house where Strauss was born Buttenheim, Germany.