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- The wife of Mr. Redway is the daughter of Cyrus and Mary E. Jacobs, the father being one of those who was prominetly concerned with the actual work of laying out the city of Boise. He was a prosperous merchant and manufacturer in that city for many years, and was one of the incorporators of the first street reailway of the city of Boise, as well as having a vital interest in many another enterprise of equal import to the city and the entire district. he died in 1900, and in 1906 his widow followed him, death coming to her in Chicago. She is buried by the side of her husband in Boise. Mrs. jacobs was a daughter of General Joel Palmer of Indiana, who was appointed superintendent of Indian Affairs in the Territory of Oregon in about 1846, and who crossed the plains to and fro, before he decided to take his family from their Indiana home to locate in Oregon in 1848. The paternal grandfather of the subject's mother was also a pioneer of Oregon in its territorial days, and was a man well known in the region in his time. Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs were married in 1858 and came to Boise in 1863, there continuing to make their home.
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