who wrote mary had a little lamb
It was 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation declaring âa Day of Thanksgiving and Praise,â the culmination of a 36-year campaign started by so-called âmotherâ or âgodmotherâ of Thanksgiving, Sarah Josepha Buell Haleâa magazine editor and writer who many say also wrote the poem that became the nursery rhyme âMary Had a Little ...