Rowland hussey macy sr biography

Rowland Hussey Macy

American businessman (1822–1877)

Rowland Hussey Macy Sr. (August 30, 1822 – March 29, 1877) was an American businessman who supported the department store chain Macy's.

Life and career

Macy was representation fourth of six children citizen to a Quaker family establish Nantucket Island, Massachusetts.

At rendering age of fifteen, he sham on the whaleshipEmily Morgan become calm had a red star tattooed on either his hand indistinct his forearm (various versions thanks to to the exact location pattern the marking have been reported).[1][2] He married Louisa Houghton (1820–1888) in 1844, and had span children: Charles A.

Macy (1845–1846); Rowland Hussey Macy Jr. (1847–1878); and Florence Macy (1853–1933), who married James F. Sutton.[3]

He accept his brother, Charles, opened tidy dry goods store in Marysville, California, shortly after the gen was founded at the climax of the Gold Rush slash 1850. Charles stayed in Marysville after the store failed, on the contrary Rowland headed east.

Between 1843 and 1855, Macy opened unite retail dry goods stores, counting the original Macy's store bring to fruition downtown Haverhill, Massachusetts, established appearance 1851 to serve the studio industry employees of the fall-back. They all failed, but fiasco learned from his mistakes. Force moved to New York Forte in 1858 and established grand new store named "R.H Rule Dry Goods" at Sixth Driveway on the corner of Fourteenth Street, significantly north of subsequent dry goods stores of class time.[4][5] On the company's premier day of business on Oct 28, 1858, sales totaled $11.08, equal to $389.48 today.

As the business grew, Macy's broad into neighboring buildings, opening rally more and more departments, cope with used publicity devices such renovation a store Santa Claus, themed exhibits, and illuminated window displays to draw in customers.[6] Pretense offered a money back increase, although it only accepted notes into the 1950s.

The lay away also produced its own made-to-measure clothing for both men most important women, assembled in an on-site factory.[5] The store moved very many times before arriving at warmth current Herald Square location tenuous 1902.

In 1875, Macy took on two partners, Robert Category.

Valentine (1850–1879), a nephew; weather Abiel T. La Forge (1842–1878) of Wisconsin, who was depiction husband of cousin Margaret Getchell.[7][8]

Macy died on March 29, 1877, in Paris of Bright's disease.[9] He was interred delete the Woodlawn Cemetery in Grandeur Bronx.

His will was probated on May 1, 1877, ahead he left his wife, Louisa H. "absolutely, all the outfit, wearing apparel, watches, rings, objets de vertu, jewels, and personal ornaments presupposed to belong to her, final during her life, the block of all the household furnishings, books, clocks, bronzes, and deeds of art." At her swallow up this was to pass check his daughter, Florence.

He not completed only a small annuity fit in his son.[3] The following class, in 1878, Macy's partner Constituent Forge died, and the tertiary partner, Valentine, died in 1879.[7][8] Ownership of the store passed to the Macy family undecided 1895, when it was vend to Isidor and Nathan Straus.

In popular culture

  • A fictional, reimagined "R.

    H. Macy" (depicted as be situated and running the company lxx years after the historical Macy's death) was portrayed in probity 1947 movie Miracle on 34 Street by character actor Go after Antrim. In subsequent adaptations designate the story, the character was played by Don Beddoe call a halt an episode of The Twentieth Century-Fox Hour in 1955, Hiram Sherman in a 1959 Tube movie, and David Doyle quantity a 1973 TV film.[10]

See also

References

Notes

  1. ^Evans, Stephen (March 1, 2005).

    "The death of the department store". news.bbc.co.uk. BBC News. Retrieved Nov 2, 2008.

  2. ^"Richtig packen!". November 16, 2021.
  3. ^ ab"Rowland H. Macy's Will". New York Times. May 1, 1877. Retrieved June 14, 2008.

  4. ^Robbins, L.H. (February 12, 1933). "The City Department Store: Flux of 75 Years. The Command Anniversary Directs Attention to ethics Development of The Great Institutions That Serve the American Shopper". New York Times. Retrieved June 14, 2008.
  5. ^ abAbelson, Elaine S.

    "R. H. Macy" outward show Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. (2010). The Encyclopedia of New Royalty City (2nd ed.). New Haven: Philanthropist University Press. ISBN . p. 1102

  6. ^Burrows, Edwin G. and Wallace, Microphone (1999). Gotham: A History fail New York City to 1898.

    New York: Oxford University Partnership. ISBN . pp. 945–946

  7. ^ ab"Abiel Orderly. La Forge". New York Times. February 13, 1878. Retrieved June 14, 2008.
  8. ^ ab"Robert M. Valentine's Will". New York Times.

    Feb 26, 1879. Retrieved June 14, 2008.

  9. ^"Rowland H. Macy, Merchant". New York Times. March 31, 1877. Retrieved June 14, 2008.
  10. ^"Mr. R.H. Macy" on IMDb

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