[DOC] [TLE] Levi Strauss - Fashion Designer - Biography.com [PAR] Oct 3, 2014 ... A San Francisco dry goods merchant, Levi Strauss launched a clothing empire by 
introducing a new design of work pants, now known as blue jeans, in the 1870s. 
... and came to America in 1847 to work for his brothers' dry goods business. ... 
He later started his own factory to make the pants in the city. [DOC] [TLE] Strauss, Levi - Learning the Business, Early Success [PAR] The elder Strauss sold dry goods, and several of his sons continued the ... Goods 
still came from the New York branch of the company, but Strauss also had ... The 
first work pants he sold were made of canvas, but Strauss later switched to ... 
Within a few years, Haas asked his brother-in-law, Daniel Koshland, to join the 
firm. [DOC] [TLE] Levi Strauss - Wikipedia [PAR] Levi Strauss was an American Jewish businessman of German origin who 
founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm, Levi Strauss & Co., 
began in 1853 in San Francisco, California. ... Strauss opened his dry goods 
wholesale business as Levi Strauss & Co. and imported ... He made tents, and 
later jeans. [DOC] [TLE] The True Inventor of Blue Jeans - America Comes Alive [PAR] No article of clothing better represents America than a pair of denim jeans. ... to 
New York from Germany with his mother and two sisters in 1847 at the age of 18. 
... in New York running a wholesale dry goods business, J. Strauss Brother & Co. 
.... to how he came to make the first pair of jeans, his trouble obtaining a patent,... [DOC] [TLE] Levi Strauss by on Prezi [PAR] ... in 1829, and came to America in 1847 to work for his brothers' dry goods 
business. In 1853, Strauss went out West where he soon started his own dry 
goods\clothing ... He, his mother, and two sisters made their way to the USA two 
years later. ... Levi worked for his brother's dry goods business. ... Birth of Jeans 
Cont. [DOC] [TLE] Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive patent for blue jeans - May 20 ... [PAR] His new business imported clothing, fabric and other dry goods to sell in the 
small ... In 1872, he wrote a letter to Strauss about his method of making work 
pants with metal rivets ... America's First Multi-Millionaire, 250 Years Later ... The 
accident came just as pilots were complaining about poor conditions at the Cairo 
airport. [DOC] [TLE] No other garment symbolizes new ideas, ingenuity ... - Dixon Valve US [PAR] and independent thinking quite like a pair of jeans. And no other ... In 1847, when 
Strauss, then 18, arrived in New York City from his native Bavaria, ... America, 
both fabrics were used for work wear. ... sisters and widowed mother in 1847 to 
join older brothers. Jonas and Louis in the family's wholesale dry goods business
,. [DOC] [TLE] boys' jeans - Post-war Years [PAR] Dec 15, 1998 ... The fact that he was to become famous for making working pants and ... Teenage 
Lb, his two sisters and his mother sailed for America in 1847, where they ... 
Strauss and his brother set up their small dry goods store near the ... The now 
famous denim material used in the manufacture of early jeans came... [DOC] [TLE] Levi Strauss Facts - Biography - YourDictionary [PAR] Levi Strauss (1829-1902) made and sold blue jeans in San Francisco, ... Levi 
Strauss' father Hirsch Strauss, a dry goods peddler, had four children, Jacob, 
Jonas, Lippman (later called Louis) and Maila (later called Mary), with his first 
wife, who died ... After he died in 1845, Jonas and Louis journeyed to America 
and began... [DOC] [TLE] Levi Strauss & Co. Timeline: How It All Came About - F.M. Light & Sons [PAR] Mar 23, 2010 ... His half-brothers were in a wholesale dry goods (cloth and linen bolts, clothing, 
etc.) ... and

Question: He came to America in 1847 to join his brothers' dry goods business; his jeans came later
Answer: Levi Strauss