Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Proclamation for the Observance of Washington’s Birthday

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.

By proclamation of the President of the United States it is recommended to the people of the United States; that they assemble in their customary places of public worship on the 22d day of February, inst., and celebrate the anniversary of the birthday of the Father of his Country, by causing to be read to them his Farewell Address.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, February 21, 1862, p. 1

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