This collection of church records consists of financial records and account books, 1895- 1968; minute books of business, Board of Trustee, and Thimble Club meetings, 1904-1948; and land records (primarily land indentures and burial plot deeds) that document church holdings, 1848-1943. Also included are two pencil sketches of the church by "W.C."
Dibblee & Brown operated from the early 1820s to 1838 in Albany, New York. Located at the corner of State and Dock Streets, Dibblee & Brown were merchants, and commission and forwarding agents. They owned sloops, towboats, and canal boats, and chartered sloops and steamboats to transport goods and commodities on the Hudson River and Erie Canal. Partners included Allen Brown (1768-1852) and Henry Dibblee (1778-1840), while Silas and Stanton Brown managed the business in New York City. Elias Brown, son of Allen Brown and his wife Nancy, was a Hudson River pilot and captain of the steamboat North America.
This is a created collection incorporated by the staff of the Albany Institute of History & Art. The collection consists primarily of deeds with some additional legal documents and other materials.
Erastus Corning I (1794-1872) was born in Norwich, Connecticut to Bliss Corning. He moved to Troy, New York at age 13 to work with an uncle, and moved to Albany at age 19 for a job in the mercantile business with James Spencer. Corning had multiple business interests during his life, including Erastus Corning & Co., which bought and sold iron products, involvement in numerous railroad companies, served as Mayor of Albany, a member of the New York Senate, and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He married Harriet Weld in 1819, and together, they had five children. This collection contains account books, business records, correspondence, financial records, and other materials.
Harmen Harmanse was the patriarch of the Gansevoort family in Albany, New York, arriving in the area by 1657. Although not the first Ten Eyck in America, Jacob C. Ten Eyck was the first to come to Albany, moving from Manhattan after 1654. The two families intermarried several times over the years, along with other Dutch families in the area. This collection includes correspondence, financial records, estate records, and other family-related information.
Scott Dumont Goodwin (1845-1935) was the legal representative and attorney for a number of influential Albanians and others whose affairs and estates are represented in this collection. Also included is the correspondence and diaries of Lieutenant George Wait Goodwin U.S. Air Force, who was killed in France in 1918, and Edward S. Goodwin, Albany physician, Helen Goodwin Yale, and Louise Goodwin, who were all children of Scott Dumont Goodwin. This collection includes correspondence, diaries, accounts, and legal papers.
D-Cady Herrick was a prominent Albany lawyer, jurist, and democratic politician whose influence and recognition extended to the national level during the late 19th and early 20th century. This collection contains correspondence, clippings, obituaries, scrapbooks, ledger books, and other business records.
Jared Holt opened his leather store in Albany, New York, in 1834. The company eventually grew to become well-known in the shoe wax industry and closed in 1992.
The collection contains the personal journals of John R. Hauf, president of the John R. Hauf Furniture Store on Central Avenue in Albany, NY dating from 1913 to 1980. Other items included are an account book, a photo album, and transcribed versions of the early journals from 1913 to 1916.
