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- William Harvey Redway was a small boy when the family home was established in Boise, and there he attended school, chiefly at the Parish School of the Episcopal church, up to the time when he was seventeen years old. At that age, he entered St. Mark's Episcopal School at Salt Lake city, Utah, and was an attendant for one year at that place, making his home during the time with the family of Rt. Rev. Bishop D. S. Tuttle, now presiding Episcopal Bishop of the United States. Upon his return to Boise from Salt lake City, Mr. Redway was employed as the office agent of the Utah, Idaho Y& Oregon Stage Company, of which the Hon. John Hailey of Boise was was superintendent and a partner in the business. In 1881 Mr. Redway moved to the Wood River country, a mining region, acting in the same capacity of agent for the company at Bellevue, Idaho. In the autumn of that year occurred his marriage to Edith Jacobs, of Boise after which he returned to Bellevue with his bride and resumed his work. Soon after, however, he bought a mercantile establishment at that point, and in connection with the store business he acted as agent for the Pacific Express Company, a position fraught with responsibility and the possibilities of danger at that time. He continued there in business until 1889, then moved to Salt lake City where he remained until 1892, the year in which he came to Caldwell.
After three years, he bought a prosperous mercantile business at this place, and continued in the business until 1909, when he felt himself sufficiently advanced in material prosperity as to warrant his retirement from the field of business, and accordingly sold his commercial interests in the place and settled down to a life of quiet.
Three daughters were born to Mr. and Mrs. Redway - Mary E. and Anne L. were born in Idaho, and Helen E was born in Salt lake City. All three have received the benefits of excellent college educations, and two of them are married while the third is engaged in the study of vocal music. The eldest daughter is married to John C. Flynn of Caldwell, Idaho, the marriage occurring in 1906, and the second daughter is the wife of J. Frederic Jones, of Chicago. They were married in September, 1912, and have taken up their residence in that city.
Mr. Redway is a stanch Republican, but his activities in party affairs does not extend beyond the business of voting at the proper intervals; he however, organized a Republican club in 1912 and was elected president of same. He has never been a seeker after office positions of any kind. He is a member of the Episcopal church, as was his father before him, and he gave most worthy assistance in the building of the present church at Caldwell, which was erected in 1898. Fraternally, he has membership in the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, but he has never aspired to official honors in either society.
Mr. Redway , wife and daughter moved to Chicago in June 1912, there to again enter business life, being now engaged in the manufacturing business. He still retains his large real estate holdings in Caldwell, Idaho.
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d. Abt 1892 (Age 56 years)