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Levi Strauss
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Who Was Levi Strauss?
An early American clothing success story, Levi Strauss was born in Germany in , and came to America in to work for his brothers' dry goods business. In , Strauss went out West where he soon started his own dry goods and clothing company. His company began making heavy-duty work pants, now known as jeans, in s, and it continues to operate to this day.
Early Years
Originally named Loeb, Levi Strauss was born into a large family on February 26, , in Buttenheim, Bavaria, Germany. His father Hirsh and his mother Rebecca Haas Strauss had two children together, and Hirsh had five children from his first marriage to Mathilde Baumann Strauss who had died in Living in Bavaria, the Strausses experienced religious discrimination because they were Jewish. There were restrictions on where they could live and special taxes placed on them because of their faith.
When he was around the age of sixteen, Strauss lost his father to tuberculosis. He, his mo
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Levi Strauss
German-American businessman (–)
This article is about the American clothing manufacturer. For the French anthropologist, see Claude Lévi-Strauss. For other uses, see Levi Strauss (disambiguation).
Levi Strauss (LEE-vy STROWSS; born Löb Strauß, German:[løːpˈʃtʁaʊs]; February 26, – September 26, ) was a German-born American businessman who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm of Levi Strauss & Co. (Levi's) began in in San Francisco, California.[1][2]
Early life
[edit]Levi Strauss was born to a Jewish family in Buttenheim on February 26, , in the Franconia region of the Kingdom of Bavaria in the German Confederation.[3][4] He was the son of Hirsch Strauss and Hirsch’s second wife, Rebecca Strauss (née Haas).[5][6]
In , aged 18, Strauss travelled with his mother and two sisters to the United States to join his brothers Jonas and Louis, who had begun a wholesale
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