Ride of Life

The Inspiring Story of  R. H. Macy 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 the fourth of six youngsters born to a Quaker family on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. At the age of fifteen, he worked on the ship, the Emily Morgan, and had a red star tattooed on his hand that became a part of the store's brand. He married Louisa Houghton (1820–1888) in 1844, and had 2 kids. When Rowland Hussey Macy was 15, he started running overboard a whaling ship. Macy, born in 1822, had fully grown on Nantucket Island, Mass.—once the house of more millionaires than anywhere else in the United States, gratefulness to the whaling industry—and observed his father flock on two  earlier expeditions. But young Macy was a little more aspiring than his father. He gained about $550 on that first voyage, a discouraging paycheck for such difficult wor...

Henry Ford Success Story Henry Ford, the father of America’s most popular automobile and the first affordable car, was intense about cars since the age of sixteen. Working in machine shops, Henry Ford was thinking about build an affordable and efficient car, which suits every American. Not till 1908 America saw its first commercial automobile. Early Life and Education Born in 1863 in a small township that's now part of Detroit, Michigan, Henry Ford's child life was spent on a small rural farm. His father was a farmer and mother was a housewife, Ford's earliest years were spent  wrapped by appliance. Impressed by farm equipment but uninterested in farm work as a career, he start training as a machinist in his late teens at a business in Detroit. Ford was known as a talented repairman, having assembled and repaired watches during his  childhood years. His skills were soon put to the test as an engineer at the Edison Company, one of ...