Macy

Macy

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  • Date Submitted: 12/11/2013 5:03 PM
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ACY’S Rowland Hussey Macy, born in 1822 was of the eighth Macy generation on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. He was a Quaker and a descendant of Thomas Macy. When Macy was 15, he joined a whaling ship that left New Bedford in December, 1837, and returned four years later. In 1844, when Macy was 22, he opened a thread-and-needle store in Boston and, two years later, a retail dry goods store in the same city. Macy was described as a stocky, bearded veteran of hard times; he was frugal and hot tempered. He was known to flirt with the girls on buying trips to Europe. In 1847, Macy went to work for his brother-in-law, George W. Houghton, a dry goods retailer in Boston. This ended quickly when Macy decided to leave with his brother Charles to California with the Forty-Niners. With his brother Charles B. Mitchell and Edward R. Anthony, Macy formed a partnership as Macy & Company in July 1850, at Marysville, California. The partnership ended just in two months. He then returned east and opened a store in April 1851, in Haverhill Massachusetts, under the name R. B. Macy, the initials of his brother, Robert, who had started the dry good business in Boston. At Haverhill Macy started the principles that later he took to New York.ACY’S Rowland Hussey Macy, born in 1822 was of the eighth Macy generation on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. He was a Quaker and a descendant of Thomas Macy. When Macy was 15, he joined a whaling ship that left New Bedford in December, 1837, and returned four years later. In 1844, when Macy was 22, he opened a thread-and-needle store in Boston and, two years later, a retail dry goods store in the same city. Macy was described as a stocky, bearded veteran of hard times; he was frugal and hot tempered. He was known to flirt with the girls on buying trips to Europe. In 1847, Macy went to work for his brother-in-law, George W. Houghton, a dry goods retailer in Boston. This ended quickly when Macy decided to leave with his brother Charles to California...