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Rowland Hussey Macy, Nantucket Quaker, Gold Rush Forty-Niner, whaling captain and grocery store owner, founded Macy's in 1858. The original Macy store (14th St. and Sixth Avenue) embodied present Macy policies of a cash business and "odd" prices (9¢ and 18¢ rather than 10¢ and 20¢). In 1874 Lazarus Straus, who had come to the U. S. as a refugee after the German revolution of 1848, leased part of Macy's basement and opened a crockery store. Captain Macy died in 1877, and until 1888 junior partners carried on the business. In 1888 control passed to Nathan...
Died. Louis Terah Haggin, 81, of Manhattan, president of Cerro de Pasco Copper Corp., son of the late famed James Ben Ali Haggin ('Forty-niner, racing man, hops and sheep raiser, mining tycoon, connoisseur), uncle of Artist Ben AH Haggin, onetime designer of living tableaux in the Ziegfeld Follies; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
Died. Ogden Mills, 72, Manhattan financier & philanthropist, father of Under-Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills; of pneumonia and complications; in Manhattan. The Mills millions were founded by Darius Ogden Mills, "Forty-Niner" and California banker. His son, Ogden Mills, was born in Sacramento, often revisited California. After being graduated from Harvard (1878) he spurred his father's enterprises, added to them (Mills hotels for poor workingmen; mines, real estate, banks, railroads, steamships, public utilities). He was a famed host, racing stableman, patron of the American Museum of Natural History. His sister is Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, relict...
...late Senator George Hearst, father of William Randolph, grizzly forty-niner, poker player, breeder of race horses and cattle, owned a little newspaper, the San Francisco Examiner, which he regarded as a worthless joke. When Will returned from Harvard, ousted because of boyish pranks, he asked his father to give him the Examiner, and got it. Sensational features and crusades for the masses against "black" capitalists-these things young Hearst had observed in the methods of Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World; and he practiced them in San Francisco. Later, in 1895, when his father left...
Rebecca West, English lady novelist, considers this frontier, blow-in-your-pile, forty-niner spirit charming. So it may be to a few; the most delicate women may like men with hairy wrists. But New York's lumberjack psychology dispels any idea that America is civilized. Rather it seems that here are the germs of new Dark Ages...