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William James Porter 1874 - 1938

William James Porter of Stawell Australia was born in 1874 to William Porter and Eliza Tomlinson Porter. He had siblings John Porter, Catherine Porter, Jane Porter, Marian Porter, Joseph Porter, Bessie Porter, Emily Porter, Harriet Porter, Mary Porter, Eliza Porter, and Sarah Margaret Porter Delahoy. William Porter died at age 64 years old in 1938 in Stawell.

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In 1874, in the year that William James Porter 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 1899, he was 25 years old when the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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Porter, William Young, Mary (Born 1886) Porter, Nova (Born 1915) Porter, Horace (Born Apr 15, 1837) Porter, Lura (Born Jan 14, 1857) Porter, John (Born Feb 24, 1824) Porter-Blacklock, Agnes (Born Apr 29, 1825) Porter, Fannie (Born Mar 20, 1898) Porter, James Houston (Born 1915) Porter, Margaret Maggie (Born Feb 7, 1872)
Porter, Richard (Apr 29, 1925 - May 12, 2001) Clement, June (Jun 1, 1920 - May 6, 1998) Porter, Hilda (Oct 3, 1910 - Dec 1980) Porter, Charles (Jan 8, 1911 - Dec 17, 2004) Porter, Kenneth (Jan 22, 1918 - May 31, 1998) Porter, Martin (Oct 20, 1897 - Apr 1965) Porter, Howard (Nov 30, 1908 - Jun 1943) Porter, Ernest (May 8, 1910 - Feb 1981) Porter, Charles (Mar 1, 1899 - Aug 1980) Porter, Mary (Aug 7, 1912 - Jun 1995)
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