Ann Rice Savage

James Barclay Jermain was born August 13, 1809, and married November 17, 1842, Catharine Ann Rice of Cambridge, N. Y., who died April 21, 1873.

They had five children :

1, Catharine, b. June 22, 1844, wife of William H. McClure of Albany, and they had Julia Prime, Archibald Jermain ;

2, Ann Rice, b. August 26, 1846, d. June 18, 1875, was wife of Rev. Frederick B. Savage, and they had, Catharine;

3, Maria Cummings, b. September 25, 1848 ;

4, Julia Prime, b. November 10, 1850, wife of Robert McCartee ;

5, Barclay, b. July 12, 1853, married June 7, 1882, Catharine S. Thayer, d. July 7, 1882.

Bibliographic information:

• Title Prime: The Descendants of James Prime, who was at Milford, Conn., in 1644, with Some Names in Allied Families
• Author Ralph Earl Prime
• Publisher G. B. Mottram, 1895
• Original from Princeton University
• Digitized Jan 28, 2009
• Length 31 pages
• Page 18
• https://books.google.com/books?id=4LQ-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&dq=...

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(NOTE: The death date of 1873 for Rev. Frederick Savage is incorrect. -- Jessica German)

(IV) James Barclay, son of Sylvanus Pierson and Catherine (Barclay) Jermain, was born in Albany, New York, August 13, 1809. He was deprived of a mother's care when he was but seven years of age and became an inmate of the home of his uncle, Rev. Nathaniel S. Prime, by whom he was prepared for college. He entered Middlebury College in 1824 and later was a student at Yale. Ill health interrupted his studies which were later resumed at Amherst College, whence he was graduated in 1831. He chose the profession of law and was admitted to the New York bar in 1836. He was engaged in the practice of law, especially in connection with his father's estate. In 1869, on the death of his father he inherited his property, and henceforth his life was marked by an unostentatious philanthropy and by the promotion of practical Christianity. His private benefactions were many and only known to a few. He was chief founder and patron of the "Home for Aged Men," and gave the Young Men's Christian Association building, erected on a lot provided by the citizens of Albany. The Fairview Home for Friendless Children near Watervliet owes its existence to his generosity. As a memorial to his only son, he endowed the Barclay Jermain professorship in Williams College. Himself a devoted Christian, he erected for the cause he loved and as an enduring family monument the Jermain Memorial Church at Watervliet, New York, a structure of grace and beauty. His memory is lovingly cherished. Mr. Jermain's interest in these benefactions continued until his death and by will he carefully provided for their continuance. His wisdom and practical humanity were everywhere acknowledged. In 1892 Williams College conferred upon him the degree of LL.D.

He married, in 1842, Catherine Ann Rice, of Cambridge, New York, born February 27, 1823, died April 21, 1873, daughter of Colonel Clark and Ann (Hilton) Rice, both of Washington county, New York. Children of James Barclay and Catherine Ann (Rice) Jermain:

1. Catherine Barclay, married William H. McClure, of Albany; children:

       Julia Jermain, died November 3, 1889, at the age of nineteen years;

       Archibald Jermain, married Anna Cassin, of Rensselaer, New York, and has one son, Barclay Jermain McClure, born August 30, 1900.

2. Ann Rice, married Rev. Frederick B. Savage, of Newburg, who died in 1873. Child, Katharine Jermain, married Frederick de Peyster Townsend and had children:

       Marie Jermain, born June 4, 1896;

       Elizabeth K., August 20, 1897, died November 7, 1909;

       Edith, January 17, 1899;

       Frederick de Peyster, April 23, 1900;

       Katherine Savage, December 9, 1902;

       Marianne, September 24, 1906;

       James Barclay, June 12, 1910.

3. Maria Cumings, unmarried.

4. Julia Prime, married Robert MacCartee, of New York.

5. Barclay, the only son, married Katharine Sophia Thayer, of Troy, New York. He died in 1882, at the early age of twenty-nine. He was a young man of fine promise and had already won the respect and confidence of his fellow citizens. He was a charter member of the Committee of Thirteen, one of the commissioners for the new building of the City Hall, and in the town of Watervliet was chairman of the committee of the Taxpayers' Association which carried on a vigorous and successful fight against corrupt administration of the town finances. He was at one time director in the Young Men's Christian Association. While interested in whatever related to Albany's improvement, Mr. Jermain dearly loved his home in the country, the house on the Troy and Albany road, where his father and mother took up their residence in the first year of their marriage and where all their children were born. The original house was built by General Worth.

Bibliographic information:

• Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs
• edited by Cuyler Reynolds
• New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1911
• Reference collection of the Schenectady County Public Library at R 929.1 R45
• Vol. I, pp. 224-227
• http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/hmgfm/jermain.html