| LC control no. | no2012064068 |
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| Personal name heading | Davis, Jacob, 1831-1908 |
| Variant(s) | Youphes, Jacob, 1831-1908 |
| Found in | In the promised land, c2005: p.10 (Jacob W. Davis ; 1834-1908) Levi Strauss WWW site, May 3, 2012 Jacob Davis biography (b. Jacob Youphes in Riga, Latvia, 1831 ; Came to America and in 1854, changed his name to Jacob Davis ; Jacob Davis died in San Francisco in 1908) Online Nevada Encyclopedia, May 3, 2012 Jacob Davis and the copper-riveted jeans (Although the Levi Strauss name is indelibly associated with copper-riveted jeans, it was Jacob W. Davis who first fabricated them at his Reno shop in 1871. After several legal battles, he and Strauss jointly won patent rights to the invention, and Davis supervised their manufacture in San Francisco until his death) |
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