Levi Strauss(Mr. Blue Jeans)

1829 - was a German-born American clothing manufacturer.

1847 - Strauss, his mother and two sisters moved toNew York City to join his brothers Jonas and Louis Lob in their dry goods business.

1850 - He had adopted the name "Levi Strauss".

1853 - Strauss moved to bustlingSan Francisco, California, where the California Gold Rush was still in high gear. 

1872 - Levi received a letter from Jacob Davis, a Reno Nevada tailor. Davis was one of Levi Strauss' regular customers, who purchased bolts of cloth from the company to use for his own business. In this letter, Davis told Levi about the interesting way in which he made pants for his customers: he placed metal rivets at the points of strain—pocket corners and on the base of the fly. As he did not have the money to patent his process he suggested that Levi pay for the paperwork and that they take out the patent together.

1873 - On the 20th of May, Strauss and Jacob Davis received United States patent #139121  for using copper  brand of jeans  in San Francisco, using fabric from the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in Manchester, New Hampshire. rivets to strengthen the pockets of denim work pants. Levi Strauss & Co. began manufacturing the first of the famous Levi's

1902 - Levi Strauss died on the 26th of September, at the age of 73. He left his thriving manufacturing and dry goods business to his four nephews—Jacob, Louis, Abraham and Siqmund Stern —who helped rebuild the company after the1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. The following year, Jacob Davis sold back his share of the company.