Jermain Business and Family Papers; plus associated Albany Records
name: label: Series Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Dry Goods
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Dry Goods / Business Records and Marketing Material
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1809-1929
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: James Barclay (J.B.) Jermain was known in the community for his philanthropy, which was made possible by his successful management the Albany, New York based dry goods business owned by his father (Sylvanus/Silvanus P. Jermain).

After his father's death in 1869, J.B. Jermain commissioned the building of a church and a home for aged men; some of the building and operations of this home is represented in the materials.

This material is comprised of correspondence, transactional receipts, contracts, cancelled checks, blank checks, and similar operations records. Additional material includes insurance policies, legal documents (including power of attorney), real estate documents. Two items of note: a court issued guardianship document (1818) for James Barclay and his brother upon their mother's death, an obituary for J.B. Jermain (1897 July 13).

The Albany, New York Records deviate from the focus of the dry goods business and men's home in that these materials include general information and records about the area and region. They have been retained with these family papers because some of the transactional records are definitively of the Jermain family, but they also include a significant number of lending and real estate records, including deeds, by other persons of Albany and the surrounds, with several documents related to William James.