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The History of Mother's Day in the United States.  In 1868 Ann Jarvis established a committee to reunite families during the dividing of the Civil War this was called "Mother's Friendship Day." She wanted it to be an annual memorial for mothers, but she died 1905 before this holiday became an annual celebration in the U.S.. Her daughter Anna Marie Jarvis continued to establish the holiday with the aid from John Wanamaker a Philadelphia merchant. The holiday became official in West Virginia in 1910 and other U.S. states followed quickly. On May 8, 1914 congress passed a law for Mother's Day to be celebrated the 2nd Sunday in May. On May 9, 1914 Woodrow Wilson declared the first national Mother's Day as a day for Americans to show the flag in honor of the mothers who lost their sons at war. In 1934 Franklin D. Roosevelt approved the stamp of commemorating the holiday. Carnations is the flower representing Mother's Day, Ann Jarvis delivered 500 of them as its first celebration in 1908.


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