Early life
Redmond was born in New York City on April 30, 1838. He was the son of William Redmond (merchant), 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 Cross, Annie Redmond (who married Richard James Cross, 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 (born 1854), 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 of the City of New York, 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 Maturin Livingston, Blanche Geraldine Livingston of the Livingston family.Career
Redmond graduated from Columbia College, Columbia University, Columbia College in 1857, along with classmates Samuel Ward Francis, Elbridge Thomas Gerry, and Daniel S. Tuttle. He worked in banking and fire insurance, serving as a Trustee to the London Assurance Corporation's indenture in 1871. Redmond also managed real estate in New York City.Society life
In 1892, Redmond (along with his sister Frances Redmond Livingston, Frances and her husband Henry Beekman Livingston (born 1854), Henry) were included in Ward McAllister's "The Four Hundred (1892), Four Hundred", purported to be an index of New York's best families, published in ''The New York Times''. Conveniently, 400 was the number of people that could fit into Mrs. Astor's ballroom. He was also included in the ''Ultra-fashionable Peerage of America'' in 1904. Redmond spent time with his family in Newport, Rhode Island in the summer months. He was a member of the New York Zoological Society the South Side Sportsmen's Club, Southside Sportsmen's Club of Long Island, and the Tuxedo Club in Tuxedo Park, New York. He was painted by Jacob H. Lazarus.Personal life
Redmond, who did not marry, was known as "the greatest beau of New York." Along with Lispenard Stewart and James Vanderburgh Parker, James Parker, Redmond was known for entertaining in "bachelor fashion." He died at his residence, 6 North Washington Square Park, Washington Square, on December 21, 1906. After a funeral that was held at Grace Church (Manhattan), Grace Church in Manhattan at 10 o'clock on Christmas Eve, he was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.References
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Redmond, Goold H. 1838 births 1906 deaths Columbia College (New York) alumni Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery