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Olaus Benson 1874 - 1967

Olaus Benson of Lanesboro, Fillmore County, MN was born on August 8, 1874, and died at age 92 years old on March 15, 1967.

Olaus Benson
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Lanesboro, Fillmore County, MN 55949
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In 1874, in the year that Olaus Benson 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, this person was only 10 years old when on May 1st, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions - a US association - first resolved that "eight hours shall constitute a legal day's labour from and after May 1, 1886, and that we recommend to labour organisations throughout this jurisdiction that they so direct their laws as to conform to this resolution by the time named." Previously, workdays would consist of 10 to 16 hours a day - 6 days a week. It would take years before the 8 hour workday became common practice - and longer before it became a law.
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Benson, Oscar (Born Aug 30, 1892) Benson-Uphold, Dora (Born Mar 23, 1881) Benson, Catherine (Jan 31, 1914 - Feb 1979) Benson, Joseph (Born Jul 14, 1949) Benson, Jemima (Born Mar 29, 1833) Benson, Warren (Born c. May 1867) Benson, Myrtelle (Born Dec 27, 1874) Benson, John (c. 1869 - c. 1958) Benson, Edlow (Feb 24, 1886 - Jan 1970) Benson, Isabelle (Dec 5, 1917 - Mar 14, 2007)
Benson, William (Nov 9, 1894 - Jan 1968) Benson, Edward (Mar 29, 1914 - Aug 1968) Benson, Helen (Jul 7, 1914 - Jan 7, 1995) Benson, Rose (May 12, 1918 - Apr 6, 2008) Benson, Louis (Jun 15, 1898 - Apr 1970) Benson, Grant (Mar 7, 1900 - Feb 1982) Benson, William (Aug 27, 1915 - Aug 13, 1994) Benson, James (Oct 31, 1922 - Apr 3, 2003) Benson, Raymond (Jun 29, 1923 - Dec 1978) Benson, Jacquelyn (Oct 22, 1923 - Feb 22, 2011)
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