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Sarah Josepha Hale

Editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book who campaigned for a national Thanksgiving Day.

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Dates
1788–1879
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Q430639

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  1. 1788–1879 Sarah Josepha Hale
  2. 28 Sep 1863 Sarah Josepha Hale authored Hale’s letter to Lincoln
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  1. Sarah J. Hale to Abraham Lincoln, September 28, 1863 (Thanksgiving), Library of Congress, Abraham Lincoln Papers, 28 Sep 1863. Primary record
    This subject is to have the day of our annual Thanksgiving made a National and fixed Union Festival.
  2. You Are The Historian, Unit 5: Giving Thanks, Plimoth Patuxet Museums. Scholarship & press
    In the 19th century, advocates such as Sarah Josepha Hale linked the 1621 harvest celebration, the Pilgrims, and the Wampanoag with a long-standing New England harvest tradition making them the founders of the holiday in generations of popular imagination.
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