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  1. He married Louisa Houghton (1820–1888) in 1844, and had three children: Charles A. Macy (1845–1846); Rowland Hussey Macy Jr. (1847–1878); and Florence Macy (1853–1933), who married James F. Sutton.

  2. Dec 18, 2023 · But tragedy struck again when he lost his son, Rowland Hussey Macy Jr., in 1878. Macy died from Bright’s disease on March 29, 1877, in Paris, France. His burial occurred at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, leaving behind a legacy that would outlive him for centuries.

  3. Sep 19, 2023 · Husband of Louisa (Houghton) Macy — married 29 Aug 1844 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Father of Charles A. Macy, Roland Hussey Macy and Florence (Macy) Sutton. Died 29 Mar 1877 at age 54 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.

    • Male
    • August 30, 1822
    • Louisa (Houghton) Macy
    • March 29, 1877
  4. May 1, 2022 · Rowland Hussey Macy, Sr. (August 30, 1822 – March 29, 1877) was an American businessman who founded the department store chain R.H. Macy and Company. Macy was born on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts to a Quaker family.

    • Nantucket, MA
    • Louisa Macy
    • MA
    • August 30, 1822
  5. Macys department store, founded by Nantucket native Rowland Hussey Macy, was the first modern department store in the United States, and, at one point, the world’s largest. It was also among the first to employ a female executive, something that’s still rare in retail today.

  6. When Rowland Hussey Macy was born on 30 August 1822, in Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States, his father, John C Macy, was 36 and his mother, Eliza Myrick, was 32. He married Louisa Houghton on 29 August 1844, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.

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  8. Aug 23, 2007 · Rowland Hussey Macy (1822-1877) was a Nantucket seaman aboard the Emily Morgan whaling ship at age 15, and while serving there he picked up at a port of call a red, five-pointed star tattoo. After a period of apprenticeship he opened four dry goods stores in the 1850s, all of which failed; undeterred, he moved to the Big Apple in 1858 and ...

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