ON THIS DAY IN 1887 , the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “The funeral of Robert B. Macy, whose death was announced in the Eagle yesterday, will take place tomorrow afternoon from his late residence, 19 Spencer place. Mr. Macy was a brother of R.H. Macy, the founder of the famous Fourteenth street establishment, New York, and had for fourteen years been in charge of its receiving departments. He was born in New Bedford, Mass., in 1820, and went to Boston, where he engaged in the dry goods business and finally became the head of the Boston firm of Macy & Butler, which still survives, although he had given up his interest in it several years ago. Mr. Macy had been fourteen years in ‘Macy’s’ and was greatly liked by all with whom he came in contact, being a good business man and possessing a

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