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Richard Powers 1874 - 1968

Richard Powers of Watkins Glen, Schuyler County, NY was born on April 2, 1874, and died at age 94 years old in May 1968.
Richard Powers
Watkins Glen, Schuyler County, NY 14891
April 2, 1874
May 1968
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    1874

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    April 2, 1874
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    1968

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    May 1968
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    Richard Powers lived 21 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 94.
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In 1874, in the year that Richard Powers 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, Richard was just 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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