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“I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens…[to] observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.”
In 1863, during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln officially established Thanksgiving.
Many are unaware that Brown has numerous connections to Northeast Ohio. He was raised in Hudson, ran a tannery along the Cuyahoga River in Kent, and lived in Akron.