The inspiration of Lincoln's first Thanksgiving proclamation
By: by Hezekiah Butterworth
Contributors: Burdick, Mary Livingston
Publisher: [Methodist Book Concern]
Published: 1903
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Anecdotes; Thanksgiving Day
Other titles: Lincoln and Douglas.; Abraham Lincoln.
Notes: Detached from The Christian Advocate, February 12, 1903.

Reprinted from Success magazine.

With Lincoln and Douglas, Abraham Lincoln [poem] by Mary Livingston Burdick.

On October 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln, prompted by a series of editorials written by Sarah Josepha Hale, proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated on the final Thursday in November 1863.