Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-11-19

Sherman of Connecticut (1721-93), who is unique
in American history in that he helped prepare
and signed the four great Documents Articles of
Association (1774), Declaration of independence
(1776), Articles OF Confederation Q7S1) and Con-
stituton of the United States (17S7). He was
great-grandson of Capt. John Sherman of Water
town, who heard his cousin, Reverend john preach
the Thanksgiving sermon under a tree" And it
was Roger Shermans grandson, United States
Senator George Frisbie Hoar of Massachusetts.
who procured the return from England in 1896
of the manuscript diary of Gov William Bradford
containing the 'Mayfower Compact"
Thanksgiving Day, as recurrent national holt
day by Presidential proclamation had it's begin
ming in 1868. In October of that year President
Lincoln by proclamation so recommended the day
to the people and set aside the last Thursday i'll
November for its observance. Such has been the
slow growth through three centuries of the observ-
ance of Thanksgiving Day, which has marched
across the continent with the American people.
Plymouth attracts more than 100000 visitors
year. These visitors make much of the "Old How
land House." which dates back to 1866 and was
owned by Jabez Rowland son of the John How
land of the Mayfower. 1t now belongs to the
Rowland Descendants of America. John Rowland
that "lustie younge man. of whom Gov Will
liam Bradford writes, in his History of the
Plimoth Plantation:
In sundrie of these stormes the winds were so
ferce and the high as they could not beare
knote of sale, but forced to hull-stri1e
sails and toss with the waves-for divorce days
togther And in of Them as they thus lay at
hull in a mighty storme, lustie younge man
Called John Howland) coming upon some occasion
above the grattings, was with seele-roll--of
the shipe thrown into the sea; but it pleased God
that he caught hould of the top sale hailliards,
which hunge overheard, and out at length;
yet he held his hould Though he sundrie
fadomes under water) till he was hald up by the
to the BRINE of the water, and then
with boathooke and other got into the
shipe againe, and his life saved; and though he
something i'll with it, yet he lived many years
after, and became a profitable member both in
church and commemorative.
This "lustie younge man." thus miraculously
saved, married Elizabeth Title, who was on the
Maydower, and, their descendants are many in the
land. Moreover tradition has it that John How
land the last of the Mayfiower passengers to
die.
Many places in the south of England have asso-
Citations with the Pilgrims and have honored their
memory with memorials of various kinds. The
latest memorial to be set up is stone at INNING
ton creek, at Hull 1t was unveiled in the presence
of representatives of the American, British and
Dutch navies. The photograph reproduced shows
Capt A. P. Fairchild, u S. N, delivering an
address on the Pilgrims
On Thanksgiving Day the good American should
give thanks to the Divine Providence which has
often aided the progress of this one nation of
earth dedicated to liberty to equality of rights
and opportunity and to the pursuit of happiness.
Never in all history has the individual citizen had
so great an opportunity to achieve competence,
establish home and found family. Never before
has people enjoyed such material comfort And
the nation is the wealthiest and most powerful
of earth.
With power comes responsibility; such is the
unwrtten law. Also prosperity tries the soul of
man quite as much does adversely; such is
human nature And so it is with nations. The
good American should therefore add dignity and
Importance to Thanksgiving Day by taking stock
of the past and the present and by making re-
solves for the future.