Washington's Birthday celebrated around the country and in London and Paris
The American Almanac noted in 1859 that the "birthday of Washington is very generally celebrated in the United States, and the Americans in London have a banquet, and in Paris they give a ball." (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year 1860 (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1860), 387.