Michigan Roots of Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day was first officially celebrated as a US Holiday in 1914, but Its roots go back much further to the 19th century and beyond. In the years before the Civil War, Ann Reeves Jarvis of West Virginia helped start “Mothers’ Day Work Clubs” to teach local women how to properly care for their children. Her daughter Anna Jarvis was the one who pushed to make Mother’s Day a national holiday in memory of her mother.. . .

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