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R. H. Macy & Company Page entitled :
Jerome Byron Wheeler
Content of this page is about :
About Macy's in the hands of Charles B. Webster and Jerome Wheeler, and how
Wheeler diverted his attention to his silver mining interests in Colorado.
Extract :
... Wheeler returned to Troy, where he was a bookkeeper and later moved to New York, where he started a grain trading business with a war comrade which failed. Upon recommendation of (now) General Devin, he found a position with Robert S. Holt & Company, flour traders. In 1870, he married Harriet Macy Valentine, a nice of Rowland Hussey Macy and the only sibling of Macy’s designated successor, R. M. Valentine. ...
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