Anna Marie Jarvis

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Anna Jarvis

Anna Marie Jarvis (born May 1, 1864 in Webster near Grafton (West Virginia) ; † November 24, 1948 in West Chester (Pennsylvania) ) is internationally recognized as the founder of Mother's Day .

Life

Her mother, Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis was prescribed charity and already organized during the American Civil War called Mother's Friendship Days , Mothers Friendship Day ' , with the aim of the wounded of both sides to have the essentials come. After the war she became active in advertising for Mother's Day . At the time, it was a holiday based on pacifism and social service. However, Jarvis could not achieve her goal during her lifetime.

Her father was a Methodist pastor.

Two years after her mother's death, Anna Marie Jarvis held a memorial service for her in her church on May 12, 1907, and then went on to seek to make Mother's Day a recognized holiday.

The first official Mother's Day was celebrated in 1908, on the third anniversary of Ann Jarvis' death, in St. Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton, West Virginia . After Pastor Harry C. Howard's sermon, Anna Jarvis distributed five hundred white and red carnations, her mother's favorite flowers. The red carnations were meant to honor the living mothers, the white to the dead.

Efforts to promote Mother's Day were crowned with success in 1914 when it was recognized nationally. The International Mother's Day Shrine 'Memorial to International Mother's Day' still stands in Grafton today as a symbol of their achievements.

Throughout the 1920s, Anna Jarvis became increasingly upset about the commercialization of the holiday. This moved her to register as a partner in the Mother's Day International Association , Vereinigung International Muttertag , to claim copyright protection on the second Sunday of May. She then tried to have the Mother's Day celebration stopped, but the lawsuit was dismissed. Her bitterness went so far that she had to go to prison for a short time in 1923 for disrupting a Mother's Day celebration.

Together with her sister Ellsinore, she spent all of her family inheritance in the fight against the holiday she had initiated, both of whom died in poverty. In 1948, shortly before her death, she told a reporter that she regretted having started the day. "Jarvis," writes her obituary in the New York Times , "was bitter because too many people sent greeting cards to their mothers." She considered them "a bad excuse for the letter you are too lazy to write".

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  1. ↑ The world owes Mother's Day to a Christian , in: News service idea of May 12, 2012.

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SURNAME Jarvis, Anna Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American founder of Mother's Day
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Webster, Grafton (West Virginia)
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1948
Place of death West Chester, Pennsylvania