Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1891 — Washington's Thanksgiving. [ARTICLE]

Washington's Thanksgiving.

The first Thanksgiving proclamation of Washington ns President of the United States was inode in New York on October 3, 1789, setting apart Thursday, Nov. 2G, of that year, “ to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great aud glorious Being who is the Author of all the good that is, that was, or that will be."