Redmond was born in Ballymena, County Antrim in Northern Ireland on October 22, 1804.
[2] At the age of 17, Redmond moved from his native Northern Ireland to Charleston, South Carolina before settling in New York City.
There he built a large brownstone mansion called Hillside,[5] which, today, is the clubhouse of the Orange Lawn Tennis Club.
Redmond died at his home in New York City on September 13, 1874,[26] and was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
[12] Through his daughter Matilda, he was the grandfather six, all born at Hillside in South Orange,[20] including: architects John Walter Cross and Eliot Cross;[21][27] Eleanor Cross Marquand,[28] an authority on "the representation and symbolism of flowers and trees in art"[28] who married Allan Marquand (son of financier Henry Gurdon Marquand);[29] and William Redmond Cross,[30] a partner in the banking firm of Redmond & Co.,[31] who married Julia Newbold (daughter of New York State Senator Thomas Newbold);[30][c] Notes Sources