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John Grantham 1874 - 1967

John Grantham of Orting, Pierce County, Washington was born on August 21, 1874, and died at age 92 years old in May 1967.
John Grantham
Orting, Pierce County, Washington 98360
August 21, 1874
May 1967
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    1874

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    August 21, 1874
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  • 05/dd
    1967

    Death

    May 1967
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In 1874, in the year that John Grantham 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 1884, he was merely 10 years old when on August 5th, the cornerstone for the base of the Statue of Liberty - a gift from the people of France - was laid. 120,000 people - most donations were $1 - donated to the completion of the base. An 1883 poem by Emma Lazarus was also written to raise funds. That poem was included in the base of the statue and is well known today. The most famous phrase: "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
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