Goold H. Redmond

Goold Hoyt Redmond (April 30, 1838 – December 21, 1906) was an American sportsmen and prominent member of society during the Gilded Age. Early life Redmond was born in New York City on April 30, 1838. He was the son of William Redmond (1804–1874) and Sabina Elizabeth (née Hoyt) Redmond (1811–1870). Among his siblings were William Redmond, Sabina Redmond Wood, Matilda Redmond (the wife of banker Richard James Cross and mother of architects John Walter Cross and Eliot Cross), Henry Redmond, Annie Redmond (who married R.J. Cross after her sister Martilda's death), Mary Redmond, Emily Redmond (who cared for the Cross children), and Frances Redmond Livingston (the wife of Henry Beekman Livingston). His father, a prominent merchant with Wm. Redmond & Son, was born in Ballymena, County Antrim in Northern Ireland and then moved to Charleston, South Carolina before settling in New York City. He was one of the founders of the Union Club. His maternal grandparents were Sabina (née Sheaff) Hoyt and Goold Hoyt, a merchant with Hoyt & Tom who was involved with the East India and China trade and was one of the founders of the Merchants' Exchange National Bank. Redmond was a grand-nephew of Jesse Hoyt, a Collector of the Port of New York who was known for his role in the Swartwout-Hoyt scandal, and Lydig Monson Hoyt, who married Blanche Geraldine Livingston of the Livingston family. Career Redmond graduated from Columbia College in 1857, along with classmates Samuel Ward Francis, Elbridge Thomas Gerry, and Daniel S. Tuttle.