Auren G. Redway

1835 - Abt 1892  (56 years)

• Name	Auren G. Redway  [1]
  Birth	5 Mar 1835	Adams, Jefferson County, New York   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1892  [3]
  Burial	UNKNOWN	Pioneer Cemetery, Boise, Idaho   [4]
  Person ID	I51280	Stewartsny
  Last Modified	2 Dec 2025

  
  

  Family	Frances Outterson,   b. Abt 1839   d. 5 May 1914, Boise, Idaho (Age 75 years)
  Children	1. William Harvey Redway,   b. Dec 1858   d. UNKNOWN  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. George Francis Redway,   b. Abt 1862, Washington Territory d. UNKNOWN  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Elizabeth Charlotte Redway,   b. Abt 1865, Idaho d. UNKNOWN  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F16753	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Dec 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Auren G. Redway was born 3/5/1835 in Adams, Jefferson county, and received the upbringing and education common to the youth of his class in that early period of American life. he was but twenty years of age when he engaged in the mercantile business in Scranton, PA and one year later he married Miss Mary Outterson, In Pulaski, Oswego county, NY. She was born in Dublin Ireland, and came to america as a child of three years. her father was Andrew Outterson, a Scot of Edinburgh birth and training, born there in 1808, who came to Amercia in 1833, bringing his young family with him. He was a paper maker by trade having learned the business in Scotland and was a large manufacturer, owning mills in a number of states at one time in his life. He was a man of considerable prominence in the business, and was known as the inventor of the system of using silk threads in United States currency. For many years Mr. Outterson made the paper on which the currency of the nation was printed, at his mills in Glen Mills, Pa. Auren G. Redway came to Boise on July 10, 1863 when the city was only 3 days old holding a commission as sutler at Boise. He continued in that business for about 5 years afterwards he was a bookkeeper and cashier at the First National Bank until he retired in 1896. --The history of Idaho, the Gem of the Mountains, 1920. From Ancestry.com in the spring of 1860, the family sailed from New York city, crossed the Isthmus of Panama, and sailed up the Pacific coast to San Francisco. In 1862, they moved to Vancouver, in what was then Washington Territory, in which place George Francis, the second child was born. In 1864, the family made its way to Boise, Idaho, and there the third child Elizabeth Charlotte, was born. The father was then employed as a government sutler in Boise, having removed thence from Vancouver with the first troops under major Jeugenbeil of the United States Army. In later years Mr. Redway was connected with Crawford-Slocum & Company, a mercantile firm, and was afterwards associated with the First National Bank of Idaho, serving that institution many years as cashier. he died in February 1900, esteemed and respected of all who knew him. He was a lifelong member of the Episcopal church and served in that body for forty years as Senior Warden. He was a Royal Arch Mason and a member of the Knights Templar of Boise Lodge No. 2.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1213] Sylvester Marsh ancestry world tree. [S1205] The Outterson Family Book, 1795 - 1995 by Dr. John Outterson, addendum 2006 by Mary F. Otterson. [S1205] The Outterson Family Book, 1795 - 1995 by Dr. John Outterson, addendum 2006 by Mary F. Otterson, p 39. [S1206] find a grave.