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IMAEDDY
IMAEDDY: 1 year ago via Android

How did Mothers day come to be, where was it first celebrated?

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tequiero123
tequiero123: 1 year ago

The modern holiday of Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother in America. She then began a campaign to make "Mother's Day" a recognized holiday in the United States. Although she was successful in 1914, she was already disappointed with its commercialization by the 1920s. Jarvis' holiday was adopted by other countries and it is now celebrated all over the world.

Jarvis never mentioned Mothering Sunday or Julia Ward Howe's attempts in the 1870s, and she never mentioned any connection to the Protestant school celebrations, and she always said that the creation was hers alone.[5] The observations in the 1870s and the 1880s never had resonance beyond the local level.[6]

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RickyRich789
RickyRich789: 1 year ago

The modern holiday of Mother's Day was first celebrated in the year 1908 when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother in the US. It was first celebrated in Boston. Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother's_Day.

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himxdffghhjutreedxcb: 1 year ago via iPhone

It was first celebrated as a recognized official holiday in Fairmont, West Virginia.

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court506
court506: 1 year ago

It originated in west Virginia

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superglide79
superglide79: 1 year ago via iPhone | Last edited at 7:30PM on 5/13/2012

I read that as 1904 it was come up with and 1908 congress made it a national observance or holliday which ever. without looking it up again i could be wrong. anna jarvis mother cared for civil war soldiers north and south.

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joshuabagel
joshuabagel: 1 year ago

a mother made it up

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george1138
george1138: 1 year ago

Everyone's just about with the WHEN, but as for WHERE, it was first celebrated in Philadelphia.

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