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1861--Flag
Day in Hartford--1862
First Flag Day Celebration
First Flag Resolution
| June 14, 1861 | 1861--Flag Day in Hartford--1861 First Known Flag Day Celebration |
June 14, 1861 |
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| Local Press Coverage |
1861--Flag
Day in Hartford--1861 Connecticut |
Local Press Coverage |
| # | DAY | DATE | PAPER | HEAD LINE | PAGE | COL | SIZE | VIEW |
| 1 | Sat | June 8, 1861 | Evening Press | Flag Day-Editorial | ?? | ?? | ?? | Click |
| 2 | Tues | June 11, 1861 | Daily Courant | Flag Raising in West Hartford | 2 | 1 | 2" | Click |
| 3 | Fri | June 14, 1861 | Daily Courant | To-day is the Anniversary of the American Flag | 2 | 4 | 2" | Click |
| 4 | Fri | June 14, 1861 | Daily Courant | Ad-Talcott & Post Will Celebrate Birthday of National Flag | 3 | 1 | 2" | Click |
| 4 | Sat | June 15, 1861 | Daily Courant | American Flags Were the Order of the Day... | 2 | 5 | 1" | Click |
| 5 | Tues | June 18, 1861 | Daily Courant | A Flag Raising Took Place at the Market St School | 2 | 4 | 1" | Click |
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| Passed June 17, 1862 |
1862--Flag Day in Connecticut--1862 First Flag Day Resolution Legislative History |
Passed June 17, 1862 |
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 Original Flag Day Resolution Connecticut State Library New Haven, CT  |
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| Passed June 17, 1862 |
1862--Flag
Day Resolution--1862 House & Senate Journals |
Passed June 17, 1862 |
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| # | DAY | DATE | JOURNAL | ITEM | ACTION | PAGE | SIZE | VIEW |
| 1 | Fri | June 6 | Senate Journal | Mr. Welch Introduced Flag Day Resolution | Passed | 151-2 | 4" | Click |
| 2 | Tues | June 10 | House Journal | Flag Day Resolution Received from Senate-Passed | Committee | 152 | 5" | Click |
| 3 | Wed | June 11 | Senate Journal | Received From House-Referred to Joint Select Committee | Concurred | 164 | 2" | Click |
| 4 | Thurs | June 12 | Senate Journal | Mr. Welch Presented Report Recommending Passage-Motion | Passed | 177 | 2" | Click |
| 5 | Fri | June 13 | House Journal | Report From Joint Committee Recommends Passage | Accepted | 177 | 2" | Click |
| 6 | Sat | June 14 | House Journal | House Resumes Consideration-No Quorum Present | Adjourned | 185 | 3" | Click |
| 7 | Tues | June 17 | House Journal | Resumes Consideration-Put Off Till Next Session-No-Motion | Passed | 187 | 2" | Click |
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| Local Press Coverage |
1862--Flag
Day in Hartford--1883 Connecticut |
Local Press Coverage |
| # | DAY | DATE | PAPER | HEAD LINE | PAGE | COL | SIZE | VIEW |
| 1 | Sat | June 7, 1862 | Daily Courant | Senator Welch Offered Flag Day Resolution | 2 | 5 | 4" | Click |
| 2 | Sat | June 7, 1862 | Daily Courant | Senate Unanimously Passed June 14th & Sept 17th Resolution | 2 | 1 | 2" | Click |
| 3 | Fri | June 13, 1862 | Daily Courant | Mr Loomis of Conn Introduced Joint Resolution for June 14th.. | 3 | 5 | 1" | Click |
| 4 | Sat | June 14, 1862 | Daily Courant | "Flag Day" -To-day is the 85th Anniversary..of Country's Banner | 2 | 4 | 1" | Click |
| 5 | Sat | June 14, 1862 | Weekly Times | New Holiday-June 14th | 1 | 7 | 8" | Click |
| 6 | Mon | June 16, 1862 | Daily Courant | "Flag Day" -There was and unusually large amount of bunting.. | 2 | 3 | 4" | Click |
| 7 | Mon | June 16, 1862 | Daily Courant | Res Making a "Flag Day" & "Constitution Day" as Hollidays | 2 | 4 | 1" | Click |
| 8 | Wed | June 18,1862 | Daily Courant | People of Terryville Celebrated Flag Day | 2 | 3 | 1" | Click |
| 9 | Wed | June 18, 1862 | Daily Courant | Flag Day Resolution Passed | 2 | 5 | 1" | Click |
| 10 | Fri | June 20, 1862 | Daily Courant | The Flag & Constitution Day Resolution Passed-Both Holidays | 2 | 4 | 1" | Click |
| 11 | Sat | June 21, 1862 | Weekly Times | Resolution for Flag Day Taken Up.. | 2 | 1 | 4" | Click |
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| 12 | Sat | June 20, 1863 | Daily Courant | Flag Day Resolution Appears to be Forgotten | 2 | 4 | 1" | Click |
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| 13 | Thurs | June 14, 1866 | Daily Courant | Flag Day-Today is the Anniversary of...the Stars & Stripes | 2 | 4 | 1" | Click |
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| 14 | Tues | June 14, 1870 | Daily Courant | To-day is Flag Day-For Some Years... | 2 | 2 | 5" | Click |
| 15 | Wed | June 15, 1870 | Daily Courant | It was on July [June] 14th 1777 and not 1776... | 2 | 1 | 1" | Click |
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| 16 | Wed | June 14, 1876 | Daily Courant | On the Fourteenth Day of June 1777... | 2 | 1 | 3" | Click |
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| 17 | Mon | June 11, 1877 | Daily Courant | Flag Day-Thursday Next..Centennial of American Flag | 2 | 2 | 4" | Click |
| 18 | Wed | June 13, 1877 | Daily Courant | The Flag of the United States | 2 | 1-2 | 20" | Click |
| 19 | Wed | June 13, 1877 | Daily Courant | Flag Day To-Morrow | 2 | 4 | 2" | Click |
| 20 | Thurs | June 14, 1877 | Daily Courant | The American Flag-By Joesph Rodman Drake | 1 | 8 | 10" | Click |
| 21 | Thurs | June 14, 1887 | Daily Courant | I Have Served My Country Under the Flag...Gen. Winfield Scott | 2 | 1 | 1" | Click |
| 22 | Thurs | June 14, 1877 | Daily Courant | As At the Early Dawn the Stars Shine Forth..H. W. Beecher | 2 | 1 | 2" | Click |
| 23 | Thurs | June 14, 1877 | Daily Courant | The National Ensign...Robert C. Weintraub | 2 | 1 | 3" | Click |
| 24 | Thurs | June 14, 1877 | Daily Courant | The Anniversary-One Hundred Years Ago... | 2 | 1 | 3" | Click |
| 25 | Thurs | June 14, 1877 | Daily Courant | There is the National Flag...Charles Sumner | 2 | 1-2 | 5" | Click |
| 26 | Thurs | June 14, 1877 | Daily Courant | When Mine Eyes..Daniel Webster | 2 | 2 | 3" | Click |
| 27 | Thurs | June 14, 1877 | Daily Courant | Our Flag Centennial-By W.C.A. | 2 | 3 | 6" | Click |
| 28 | Thurs | June 14, 1877 | Daily Courant | When the Standard of the Union...Daniel Webster | 2 | 3 | 1" | Click |
| 29 | Thurs | June 14, 1877 | Daily Courant | Oh, Glorious Flag...Edward J. Preston | 2 | 3 | 2" | Click |
| 30 | Thurs | June 14, 1877 | Daily Courant | Oh! Thus Be it Ever...Francis Scott Key | 2 | 3 | 1" | Click |
| 31 | Thurs | June 14, 1877 | Daily Courant | Hang Out the Flags | 2 | 4 | 1" | Click |
| 32 | Thurs | June 14, 1877 | Daily Courant | Brief Mention-Let Old Glory Wave | 2 | 4 | 1" | Click |
| 33 | Thurs | June 14, 1877 | Daily Courant | Stand By the Flag... | 2 | 4 | 1" | Click |
| 34 | Thurs | June 14, 1877 | Daily Courant | What Flag is This You Carry...Dr. Holmes | 2 | 5 | 1" | Click |
| 35 | Thurs | June 14, 1877 | Daily Courant | Ad-Glorious Stars and Stripes-Knous Ives & Co. | 2 | 7 | 10" | Click |
| 36 | Fri | June 15, 1877 | Daily Courant | Flag Day-General Display of the Natonal Colors. | 2 | 5 | 3" | Click |
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| 37 | Fri | June 14, 1878 | Daily Courant | Flag Day-Today is Flag Day | 2 | 1 | 3" | Click |
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| 38 | Wed | June 15, 1881 | Daily Courant | Yesterday, Flag Day, the National Colors were Hoisted... | 2 | 3 | 1" | Click |
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| 39 | Wed | June 13, 1883 | Daily Courant | Flag Day-Tomorrow June 14th Will Be Flag Day.. | 2 | 1 | 2" | Click |
| 40 | Thurs | June 14, 1883 | Daily Courant | This is Flag Day-Give Old Glory to the June Breezes | 2 | 1 | 1" | Click |
| 41 | Fri | June 15, 1883 | Daily Courant | Flags Were Displayed Generally Throughout the City | 1 | 3 | 1" | Click |
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| 42 | Wed | June 15, 1887 | Daily Courant | Flags Were Quite Generally Displayed... | 2 | 3 | 1" | Click |
| 43 | Fri | June 17, 1887 | Daily Courant | Toledo Blade-Today is 110th Anniversary | 1 | 9 | 1" | Click |
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| 44 | Thurs | June 14, 1888 | Daily Courant | This is Flag Day, Stars and Stripes Day, Old Glory Day. | 4 | 1 | 2" | Click |
| 45 | Thurs | June 14, 1888 | Daily Courant | Flag Day-Hang out the Bunting Today... | 5 | 1 | 1" | Click |
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| 46 | Fri | June 14, 1889 | Daily Courant | Flag Day-There Is Some Difference of Opinion... | 4 | 1 | 2" | Click |
| 47 | Fri | June 14, 1889 | Daily Courant | Rochester Democrat-The Courant...Made...Wise Suggestion | 4 | 3 | 2" | Click |
| 48 | Fri | June 14, 1889 | Daily Courant | Utica Herald-Curant Recalls the Fact that June 14th is... | 4 | 3 | 2" | Click |
| 49 | Sat | June 15, 1889 | Daily Courant | Flag Day-A General Display of Bunting | 8 | 2 | 3" | Click |
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| 50 | Fri | June 13, 1890 | Daily Courant | Flag Day-Run Up the Flag To-Morrow | 8 | 1 | 2" | Click |
| 51 | Sat | June 14, 1890 | Daily Courant | Flag Day-The Courant Has Been Preaching Doctrine for Years | 4 | 2 | 3" | Click |
| 52 | Mon | June 16, 1890 | Daily Courant | Flag Day-Flag Day Was Quite Generally Noticed... | 1 | 4 | 2" | Click |
| 53 | Mon | June 16, 1890 | Daily Courant | Flags and Flag Day-Reverand Wheeler's Sermon | 4 | 2 | 10" | Click |
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| 54 | Thurs | May 28, 1891 | Daily Courant | Flag Day-The 14th of June is the Anniversary.. | 4 | 2 | 7" | Click |
| 55 | Sat | June 6, 1891 | Daily Courant | Flag Day-Address By Sons of the American Revolution | 4 | 3 | 6" | Click |
| 56 | Sat | June 6, 1891 | Daily Courant | National Society SAR Has Adopted Resolution... | 4 | 3 | 3" | Click |
| 57 | Mon | June 15, 1891 | Daily Courant | Flag Day In The Schools-Patriotic Exercises for Hartford | 1 | 6 | 8" | Click |
| 58 | Mon | June 15, 1891 | Daily Courant | Flag Day is to Have..Fitting Observance at Lebanon To-day | 1 | 7 | 6" | Click |
| 59 | Tues | June 16, 1891 | Daily Courant | Flag Day in the Schools-Many Celebrations in Hartford | 1 | 5 | 20" | Click |
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| 60 | Sat | June 11, 1892 | Daily Courant | Flag Day at Putnam Camp-SAR | 3 | 4 | 6" | Click |
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| 61 | Wed | June 14, 1893 | Daily Courant | Flag Day Exercises | 2 | 3 | 18" | Click |
| 62 | Thurs | June 15, 1893 | Daily Courant | Flag Day at the Schools | 10 | 1 | 2" | Click |
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| National Press Coverage |
1862--Flag
Day in Hartford--1883 Connecticut |
National Press Coverage |
| # | DAY | DATE | PAPER | CITY | STATE | HEAD LINE | PAGE | COL | SIZE | VIEW |
| 1 | Tues | June 17,1862 | Daily Gazette | Janesville | WI | The Connecticut Senate... | 2 | 1 | 3" | Click |
| 2 | Fri | June 27, 1862 | Richland Co. Obs. | Richland Center | WI | The Connecticut Senate... | 2 | 1 | 3" | Click |
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| 3 | Sun | June 19, 1870 | New York Times | New York | NY | Today is Flag Day... | 3 | ? | 5" | Click |
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| 4 | Fri | June 15, 1883 | New York Times | New York | NY | Flags Were Displayed... | 1 | ? | 1" | Click |
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| Reference Source |
1861--Flag
Day in Hartford--1861 Connecticut |
Reference Source |
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| 1 | 1912 | Kansas Cyclopedia | Flag Day-To George Morris of Hartford, CT is Given Credit for Suggesting Flag Day | 646 | 2" | Click |
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