Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1899 — Custom’s Probable Suggestion. [ARTICLE]

Custom’s Probable Suggestion.

The antiquarian will tell us thwt Thanksgiving day was suggested by tha Hebrew “Feast of the Tabernacles” or “Feast of Ingathering” at the end of tha year. Occasional thanksgiving was not unusual in Europe, and 6uch a day waa observed in Leyden, Holland, Oct. 3, 1575, the first anniversary of the deliverance of that city from siege. The pilgrim fathers, however, are unquestionably to be credited with inaugurating- tha day in America and it has become purely an American observance equally recognized with Christmas and New Year. As tte gather at the well-filled boards let us*cast a passing thought on those earnest men and women in the peaked hats and quaint hoods who have taught us to give thanks/ for the blessings of life,