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R. H. Macy & Company
Page entitled : R.H. Macy
partners Getchell LaForge and Valentine
Content of this page is about :
About Rowland Macy's partners, Margaret Getchell, Abiel T. LaForge and R. M.
Valentine and how their deaths prevented succession at R. H. Macy &
Company.
Extract :
... Margaret married Abiel T.
LaForge, a lace buyer who was consequently (in 1872) made a partner in the firm. Although he was innovative enough to select a woman for an executive position, R. H. Macy was obviously still too Victorian to make her a partner in her own right. To allow her to go on managing Macy’s, besides rearing her five children, the LaForges settled in an apartment above the store.
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