Edith Jacobs

Edith Jacobs

Female 1860 - 1938  (78 years)


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  • Name Edith Jacobs  [1
    Birth 21 May 1860 
    Gender Female 
    Death 26 Dec 1938  [2
    Person ID I69168  Stewartsny
    Last Modified 2 Dec 2025 

    Family William Harvey Redway,   b. Dec 1858   d. UNKNOWN 
    Marriage 1881 
    Children 
     1. Mary E. Redway,   b. Idaho Find all individuals with events at this locationd. UNKNOWN  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     2. Helen E. Redway,   b. Salt Lake City, Utah Find all individuals with events at this locationd. UNKNOWN  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     3. Anne L. Redway,   b. Idaho Find all individuals with events at this locationd. UNKNOWN  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F16808  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Dec 2025 

  • Notes 
    • 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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