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Joseph Merritt Leek 1868 - 1898

Joseph Merritt Leek was born in 1868 in New Gretna, Burlington County, New Jersey United States to Joseph Henry Leek and Phoebe Lavinia Sears, and had siblings Anna Laura Leek and Mary S. Leek. Joseph Leek died at age 30 years old in 1898.

Joseph Merritt Leek
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1868
New Gretna, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States
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1898
New Jersey, United States
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    Joseph Merritt Leek did not marry.
  • 1868

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    Joseph Merritt Leek lived 36 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 30.
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In 1868, in the year that Joseph Merritt Leek was born, on October 28th, Thomas Edison - age 21 - applied for his first patent. It was for the electric vote recorder and was designed to make voting quicker and the counting of votes more accurate. Congress didn't like the idea so Edison's voting machine was never used.
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In 1874, Joseph was just 6 years old when 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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Leek, John (c. 1715 - 1777) Leek, Philip (1674 - Apr 6, 1712) Leek, Thomas (c. 1677 - c. May 17, 1702) Leek, Ebenezer (1674 - Apr 4, 1702) Leek, Ebenezer (Sep 12, 1647 - Jun 10, 1726) Leek, John (1723 - c. 1749) Leek, Lenta (Jan 27, 1916 - Aug 1972) Leek, Daphne (Jul 3, 1917 - Dec 1985) Leek, Alton (Feb 11, 1903 - Mar 1976) Leek, Goodridge (Jun 13, 1887 - Dec 1978)
Leek, Ralph (Dec 9, 1929 - May 1988) Leek, Arthur (Jan 4, 1889 - May 1968) Leek, Spencer (Jun 23, 1916 - Dec 1980) Leek, Helen (May 24, 1899 - Oct 1969) Leek, Galen (Jan 25, 1928 - Jul 14, 2001) Leek, Etta (Nov 12, 1907 - Sep 5, 1999) Leek, Jean (Aug 31, 1909 - Nov 1978) Leek, Adrian (Jan 1, 1946 - Mar 1, 2011) Leek, Cassaundra (Aug 27, 1943 - Apr 1, 2008) Leek, Helen (Nov 5, 1934 - Oct 15, 2008)
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