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Search the Wayback Machine Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. Sign up for free Log in. Borrow Program. Levi Strauss created his blue jeans business in San Francisco in Downey served as the company's in-house historian for almost 25 years. She spoke about his early life in Germany, his move to New York and then to California, his long career, and his contributions to the San Francisco community in his later years.

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InStrauss 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. 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 mother, and two sisters made their way to the United States two years later. Jonas and Louis had established a dry goods business there and Levi went to work for them.

The California Gold Rush of led many to travel out west to seek their fortune. Strauss was no exception. In earlyhe headed out to San Francisco to sell goods to the thriving mining trade. Strauss ran his own wholesale dry goods company as well as acted as his brothers' West Coast agent.