LBM Museum Inventory Page 1

129 North Second, The Louise Beard Memorial Museum is maintained by the Newport Revitalization & Preservation Society. The Louise Beard Museum was bequeathed to the 'towns' people' in 1938 by Katherine Leiby Howe Beard as a memorial to her daughter, Louise. The home was built in the 1890s by Mr. and Mrs. Horace Beard and was the site of many brilliant and festive soirees at the turn of the century. The second floor museum houses a wonderful collection of Newport memorabilia including advertising from early merchants, clothing worn to Newport's gala social events and furniture and antiques used by our forbearers.

The inventory list is sorted by family and date, thus telling the history of the families. It is very long! Select a pages from below; you can always read them later as long as you do not close them.

472	Photo	Photograph-Elias Bixler Leiby, son of Samuel and Eve Smith Leiby, born 1846 at home of parents, corner s. 2^nd St. and Spruce Alley, Newport. Educated in Newport schools and Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove. Member Reformed church, S.S.Supt, S.S. teacher for more than 65 years, church elder. Merchant. Knights of Pythias. Member Newport Masonic Lodge and Past Master of the same. Postmaster, Marysville. President Marysville Bank. In lumber and fire insurance business. Married Jemia Jane Smith. One son: Scott Smith Leiby. Died in Harrisburg 1932. Buried in Newport Cemetery	1846-1932	LEIBY	Leiby, Elias
466	Photo	Photograph-Margaret Leiby Howe, daughter of Samuel and Eve Smith Leiby was born in house in Newport Square, 1833, Died 1927 in this house (Louise Beard Memorial), 129 N. 2^nd Street. Confirmed in Lutheran Church 1851. Attended Miss Paine’s School, Carlisle 1854. Married Dr. Wm R. Howe Oct 23, 1856 at her parent’s home in Oliver Twp. Choir singer, Sunday School Teach, charter member of Women’s Missionary Society of Newport Lutheran Church. Buried on Glanding- Howe lot in Newport Cemetery. Had two daughters: Annie Eva Howe (Glanding) and Katherine Howe (Beard). Attended Newport schools.	1833-1917	LEIBY	Howe, Margaret Leiby
465	Photo	Photograph-Catherine Leiby Kohler Brown Fishburn, daughter of Samuel and Eve Smith Leiby, born 1831at the home of her grandparents, John and Catherine Lesh Smith in Oliver Twp. Died 1906 in Newport and buried in Newport Cemetery. The name “Catherine Brown” appears on her [grave] stone because of the high esteem in which Dr. Brown was held by her descendants. Confirmed in Luther Church 1847, deeply religious	1831-1906	LEIBY	Leiby, Catherine
480	Photo	Photograph – Sarah Smith Toomey (1825-1894), daughter of John and Catherine Lesh Smith, sister of Eve Smith Leiby.	1825-1894	LEIBY	Smith, Eve
561	Photo	Daguerreotype – Joshua Singer Leiby 1840-1907, son of Samuel and Eve Smith Leiby.	1840-1907	LEIBY	Leiby, Joshua
464	Photo	Photograph-Eve Smith Leiby. Born 1810 by a mill at Lesh’s Creek in Bethel Twp, Berks Co. Daughter of John and Catherine Lesh Smith. Was a child in arms when her parents migrated to Perry Co. Died in Oliver Twp. 1876; she is buried in Newport Cemetery. Member of Reformed Church. She was a typical homemaker and mother of the 19^th century. [7 children] With her help and under her supervision at her farm home in Oliver Twp. Wool was carded and spun; blankets woven; flax was spun; linen sheets and towels were woven; candles were molded. A dressmaker (Barbara Lenig, a cousin was there weeks at a time doing hand sewing for the large family. Making home wines, churning butter, baking, butchering, drying fruit, curing hams, boiling apple butter, atc.- all these home processes were typical of the day. It was in this home that Katherine Libey Howe (Beard) lived for the first 16 years of her life, and the gracious hospitality of her grandparents so endeared them to her that she cherished articles belonging to them, and in this way many of these museum exhibits were preserved	1810-1876	LEIBY