Name/Title

Family Bible

Entry/Object ID

2025.001.023

Description

Leister family Bible King James Version published in 1861. Leister family crest in the inside cover. Middling condition, with peeling edges and binding and pages beginning to dry rot. This Bible was published in 1861by William W. Harding, Philadelphia. Front page has coat-of-arms in upper right corner with the name Herbert LaMar Leister, Bradleah Manor underneath. Five pages of family records list numerous birth, marriage and death dates for members of the Leister family. A page at the end of the Bible lists the itemized cost of a house built in 1885.

Acquisition

Accession

2025.001