Pumpkin Pudding recipe
Pumpkin Pudding recipe

Thanksgiving, Lincoln and Pumpkin Pudding

by Tori Avey on Nov 15, 2012

Abraham Lincoln, at age 54 – November 8, 1863. Photographed by Alexander Gardner.

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Give thanks, all ye people, give thanks to the Lord,
Alleluias of freedom with joyful accord:
Let the East and the West, North and South roll along,
Sea, mountain and prairie, one thanksgiving song.

— from The Presidents Hymn written by William Augustus Muhlenburg for President Abraham Lincoln, 1863

Sarah Josepha Hale, painted by James Reid Lambdin (1807-1889). Richards Free Library, Newport, New Hampshire.

I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.

— from Abraham Lincolns Proclamation of Thanksgiving, October 3, 1863
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