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DS2005-0387
New Testament Bible of Aurelia Folger Crane
DS2005-0387

New Testament Bible of Aurelia Folger Crane

Date1840 (dated)
Printer E. Morgan & Co.
OriginAmerica, Ohio, Cincinnati
MediumPaper, leather, and pencil
DimensionsOW: 2 13/16" x OH: 4 3/8" x OD: 1 7/8"
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number2005-16,6
DescriptionThis is a small NEW TESTAMENT covered in red leather with a "pocketbook" closure. The leather is tooled around the edges and there are six gold gilded bars on the spine and the word "TESTAMENT." The title page reads "THE/ NEW TESTAMENT/ OF/ OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST./ TRANSLATED OUT OF/ THE ORIGINAL GREEK;/ AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY/ COMPARED AND REVISED./ CINCINNATI./ PUBLISHED BY E. MORGAN AND CO./ Stereotyped by L. Johnson/ 1840."

The yellow end papers are inscribed in pencil: "A. F. Crane" and "Aurelia Folger Crane."
Label TextThis NEW TESTAMENT is part of a group of samplers and books that descended in the Folger-Crane family of Cincinnati, Ohio. The owner of the bible is Aurelia Folger Crane (b. May 16, 1834), the third child born to Sarah Folger and her husband Rufus Crane.
ProvenanceThis NEW TESTAMENT is part of a group of samplers and books that descended in the Folger-Crane family of Cincinnati, Ohio. The owner of the bible is Aurelia Folger Crane (b. May 16, 1834), the third child born to Sarah Folger and her husband Rufus Crane. The Folger family, originally from Nantucket, Massachusetts, was in Ohio by 1814. Members of the Society of Friends, they are first listed in Hinshaw's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN QUAKER GENEALOGY, Vol. V, as transferring to the Miami Monthly Meeting in Warren County, then on to Cincinnati, where they were listed among the founding families of the Cincinnati Monthly Meeting (set apart from Miami MM on March 23, 1814). Sarah Folger married Rufus Crane and the samplers, family bibles, and books descended through this family.