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John Allen 1874 - 1966

John Allen of Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia was born on March 14, 1874, and died at age 92 years old in April 1966.
John Allen
Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia 23901
March 14, 1874
April 1966
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    1874

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    March 14, 1874
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    1966

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    April 1966
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In 1874, in the year that John Allen was born, on May 20th, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis were approved for a patent for "blue jeans with copper rivets". They charged $13.50 per dozen jeans. Although the term "jeans" was first used in 1795 - in Italy - using rivets to reinforce stress points in jeans such as pockets and the bottom of the fly was an original idea..
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In 1888, he was merely 14 years old when on July 25th, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City - Frank Edward McGurrin - decisively beat the competition in a typing contest in Ohio. He was supposedly the only person who used touch typing and is believed to have invented the method. Touch typing is ubiquitous now - but Frank's win is what convinced everyone that the method was good!
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