Sarah Josepha Buell Hale Print

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Title: Sarah Josepha Buell Hale Print
Creator(s): St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Religious News Service Photo
Date: 1947-11-23
Content Type: art reproduction
Subject(s): Thanksgiving Day
Geographic Area: Philadelphia (Pa.)
Time Period: 1940-1949
Description: "Mrs. Sarah Josepha Buell Hale has her place in history as the "Mother of Thanksgiving Day." Novelist and editor of several women's magazines she campaigned for more than 30 years urging the adoption of her native New England festival as a national public holiday. President Lincoln agreed, proclaimed the first official Thanksgiving Day in 1864. Mrs. Hale died in Philadelphia in 1879."
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Classification: Thanksgiving Day 1947113
Owner: St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri-St. Louis