Library Record
Metadata
Collection |
Alexander Mack Memorial Library Special Collections |
Catalog Number |
18.7.002 |
Title |
James Ambrose Fry family Bible |
Donor |
Seaver, Elizabeth Wayland |
Summary |
The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments, translated out of the original tongues with a complete concordance, embracing every passage of scripture in the largest editions, Apocrypha and Psalms in metre,100,000 marginal references and readings and Dr. William Smith's Standard Bible dictionary, in which every important scriptural word is fully explained ..., and many other important and useful aids to the study of the Holy Scriptures. Philadelphia, Pa. : National Publishing Co., [1879?] |
Object Name |
Book |
Publisher |
National Publishing Co. |
Published Date |
circa 1879 |
Published Place |
Philadelphia (Pa.) |
Physical Description |
1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations (some color), maps, plates. Marbled end pages and edges. Brown leather over board cover. Holy Bible stamped in gold on front cover. Lacking most of backstrip. Victorian family presentation Bible with supplements for family history and memorabilia. John W. Wayland, Jr. wrote on the second free endpage,"This Bible was acquired by James A. Fry, probably about 1882." John Walter Wayland Jr. Harrisonburg Baptist Sunday School Cradle Roll certificate, May 1911 laid inside front cover. Extensive family history in section filled in and added in section after Apocrypha. Starts with a glued in hand lettered family record listing the children of William Harvey Fry and Martha Moyers Fry. Fancy printed marriage certificate for James A. Fry and Annie Wine. The next page lists the marriages of Mattie V. Fry to John W. Wayland (1898) and William F. Fry to Dora May Ballentine (1904). The following three leaves are extensive lists of Births, Deaths and Memoranda. The section ends with several pages of typed and nicely written lists detailing the genealogy of the grandchildren and further descants of James Ambrose Fry. |
People |
Ballentine, Dora May Fry, Dora May Ballentine Fry, John Ambrose Fry, Martha Moyers Fry, Mattie V. Fry, William F. Fry, William Harvey Moyers, Martha Wayland, John Walter, 1872-1962 Wayland, Jr., John Walter Wayland, Mattie V. Fry Wine, Annie Wine, James A. |
Subjects |
Bible -- Concordances, English Bible -- History of Biblical events Bible -- Dictionaries |