http://pec.lib.wvu.edu/record/P61741879Thanksgiving proclamation, by his Excellency Henry M. Mathews, Governor.Leaflet. At head of title: State of West Virginia. "Executive Department, Wheeling, November 14, 1879. I, Henry M. Mathews, Governor of the State of West Virginia, do hereby appoint Thursday, November 27th, 1879, as a day of Thanksgiving and Prayer, and request that it be properly observed by the people of the State. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the State to be affixed at Wheeling, this fourteenth day of November, 1879, and of the State the seventeenth." Signed: Henry M. Mathews. "By the Governor, Ran. Stalnaker, Jr., Private Secretary."West Virginia. Governor (1877-1881 : Mathews)Mathews, Henry Mason, 1834-1884.Thanksgiving day proclamations--1879 Nov. 14.14256