Bellingham's rapid commercial expan...

Bellingham's rapid commercial expansion in the early 1900 provided many opportunities for business in the building and construction industry. single in kind of the many people taking advantage of this situation was James W Macy, a young man from southwest Ohio who began his career as a local general contractor during this era.

Born in 1884 in Fidelity, Ohio, Macy learned stonemasonry and [i]be[/i] consolidated work from his father and became independent at an early age. In 1905 with no family obligations, he joined a measure and estimate crew headed west to work upon the Shoshone Reservation near Wind River, Wyoming. This experience l