1908 – Mother’s Day

in a church in Grafton West Virginia the
first Mother’s Day was celebrated on May
tenth 1908 throughout the Civil War Anna
Jarvis had fought for better sanitary
conditions for women and after her death
her daughter organized the first
Memorial Day for women the holiday
Drouin by 1914 President Woodrow Wilson
declared it a national holiday mother’s
Day is now one of the most commercially
successful us holidays