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Levi Strauss and His Company
Title: Levi Strauss and His Company
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 834 | Pages: 3.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Levi Strauss and His Company
Loeb Strauss, whose name was later changed to Levi, was born on February 26, 1829, in Buttenheim Bavaria in Germany. He was born to his Jewish parents Hirsch Strauss and his second wife, Rebecca Haas Strauss. His father, was a dry goods peddler who traveled around the country selling dry goods. Hirsch Strauss had five other children Jacob, Jonas, Louis, Rosla and Mathilde from his first wife, who had died several years earlier. Loeb and his older …showed first 75 words of 834 total…
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During the week of September 22, 1902 Levi began to complain of ill health, but by Friday evening the 26th, he felt well enough to attend the family dinner at the home on Leavenworth Street which he shared his sister’s family. He awakened briefly in the night, and said to the nurse that he felt "as comfortable as I can under the circumstances.” Then, peacefully, he died.
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