Jerome B. Wheeler

Jerome B. Wheeler was president and partner of R. H. Macy & Company in New York City and was an owner of mines, a hotel, and other businesses in Colorado.

"[1] Wheeler enlisted as a private in the 6th Regiment New York Volunteer Cavalry on his 20th birthday and at the beginning of the Civil War.

He trained in Staten Island, New York, and was stationed in Washington, D.C., before obtaining his horse with the rest of the regiment in Cloud Mills, Virginia.

Going against the "wishes of his superiors", Wheeler brought supplies to a group of starving Union Army soldiers who were positioned behind enemy lines.

Wheeler moved to New York City about May 1866 and took a clerical position at John F. Barkley and Company, a grain merchant.

He worked at Holt and Company, a large flour and grain commission house, starting in 1869 as a bookkeeper.

In 1879, a few years after Rowland Hussey Macy's death, Charles Webster brought Wheeler in to be a 45% partner in the purchase of the department store.

[2][3] In 1893, Wheeler built the Windemere estate in Manitou Springs, which included a conservatory, coach house, billiard rooms and bowling alley.