References for
Mother's Day Pages are:
Bartlett,
John. 1901. Familiar Quotations; Smith's Bible
Dictionary; From my Biblical Cyclopedic Index; From
"so That's in the Bible" by Broadman &
Holman Reference Library; Excerpted from Compton's
Interactive Encyclopedia; From my Biblical Cyclopedic
Index & World Book Encyclopedia.
Mother's
Day is set apart every year in honor of motherhood. On
the second Sunday in May, many families and churches make
a special point of honoring mothers. Many people follow
the custom of wearing a carnation on Mother's Day. A
colored carnation means that a person's mother is living.
A white carnation indicates that a person's mother is
dead.
Mother's
Day, first observed in 1908, was recognized officially by
Congress and the President in 1914. It is celebrated in
honor of the nation's mothers on the second Sunday in
May. Mother's Day is one of the holidays that have been
designated by Presidential proclamations.
A
day for honoring mothers was observed many years ago in
England. It was called Mothering Sunday, and came in
mid-Lent. Yugoslavs and people in other nations have
observed similar days.
Jarvis, Anna
M. (1864-1948),
founder of Mother's Day, born Grafton, West Virginia,
Julia
Ward Howe made the first known suggestion for a Mother's
Day in the United States in 1872. She suggested that
people observe a Mother's Day on June 2 as a day
dedicated to peace. For several years, she held an annual
Mother's Day meeting in Boston. Mary Towles Sasseen, a
Kentucky schoolteacher, started conducting Mother's Day
celebrations in 1887. Frank E. Hering of South Bend,
Ind., launched a campaign for the observance of Mother's
Day in 1904.
Three years later, Anna Jarvis of Grafton, W. Va., and
Philadelphia, began a campaign for a nationwide
observance of Mother's Day. She chose the second Sunday
in May, and began the custom of wearing a carnation. On
May 10, 1908, churches in Grafton and Philadelphia held
Mother's Day celebrations. The service at Andrews
Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton honored the memory
of Anna Jarvis' own mother, Mrs. Anna Reeves Jarvis.
At the
General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in
Minneapolis, Minn., in 1912, a delegate from Andrews
Church introduced a resolution recognizing Anna Jarvis as
the founder of Mother's Day. It suggested that the second
Sunday in May be observed as Mother's Day.
Mother's Day received national recognition on May 9,
1914. On that day, President Woodrow Wilson signed a
joint resolution of Congress recommending that Congress
and the executive departments of the federal government
observe Mother's Day. The next year, President Wilson was
authorized to proclaim Mother's Day an annual national
observance.
Howe, Julia
Ward (1819-1910), an American writer, lecturer, and
reformer, was one of the most famous women of her time.
She wrote the words of "The Battle Hymn of the
Republic" and introduced the idea of Mother's Day.
Howe was born in New York City into a prominent family.
She married American social reformer Samuel Gridley Howe
in 1843 and moved to Boston. She wrote poems and plays
and helped her husband edit The Commonwealth, an
antislavery paper.
In 1861,
during the Civil War, Howe visited military camps near
Washington, D.C. There she was inspired to write
"The Battle Hymn of the Republic" to be sung to
the tune of the popular American song "John Brown's
Body." It was published in the Atlantic Monthly two
months later and became the major war song of the Union
forces.
After the war, Howe became increasingly interested in the
women's movement. In 1868, she helped organize the New
England Woman's Club and served for many years as its
president. Howe also became the first president of the
New England Woman Suffrage Association.
Howe became noted as a lecturer and writer on literary
and other cultural topics as well as on women's rights.
Her writings include A Trip to Cuba (1860), Sex and
Education (1874), Modern Society (1881), Margaret Fuller
(1883), and Reminiscences (1899). In 1908, she became the
first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and
Letters.
Civil War
soldiers liked to create their own marching songs by
singing humorous lyrics to familiar tunes. Early in the
war, Union soldiers began to sing the words "John
Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave" to the
tune of Steffe's hymn. In 1861, American poet and
reformer Julia Ward Howe heard an obscene version of the
"John Brown" song at a Union army camp. She
decided to write more appropriate lyrics and composed
"The Battle Hymn of the Republic." It was
published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and soon
appeared in all the Union army hymnbooks.
Mother's
Day is set apart every year in honor of motherhood. On
the second Sunday in May, many families and churches make
a special point of honoring mothers. Many people follow
the custom of wearing a carnation on Mother's Day. A
colored carnation means that a person's mother is living.
A white carnation indicates that a person's mother is
dead.
Mother's
Day, first observed in 1908, was recognized officially by
Congress and the President in 1914. It is celebrated in
honor of the nation's mothers on the second Sunday in
May. Mother's Day is one of the holidays that have been
designated by Presidential proclamations.
A
day for honoring mothers was observed many years ago in
England. It was called Mothering Sunday, and came in
mid-Lent. Yugoslavs and people in other nations have
observed similar days.
Jarvis, Anna
M. (1864-1948),
founder of Mother's Day, born Grafton, West Virginia,
Julia
Ward Howe made the first known suggestion for a Mother's
Day in the United States in 1872. She suggested that
people observe a Mother's Day on June 2 as a day
dedicated to peace. For several years, she held an annual
Mother's Day meeting in Boston. Mary Towles Sasseen, a
Kentucky schoolteacher, started conducting Mother's Day
celebrations in 1887. Frank E. Hering of South Bend,
Ind., launched a campaign for the observance of Mother's
Day in 1904.
Three years later, Anna Jarvis of Grafton, W. Va., and
Philadelphia, began a campaign for a nationwide
observance of Mother's Day. She chose the second Sunday
in May, and began the custom of wearing a carnation. On
May 10, 1908, churches in Grafton and Philadelphia held
Mother's Day celebrations. The service at Andrews
Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton honored the memory
of Anna Jarvis' own mother, Mrs. Anna Reeves Jarvis.
At the
General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in
Minneapolis, Minn., in 1912, a delegate from Andrews
Church introduced a resolution recognizing Anna Jarvis as
the founder of Mother's Day. It suggested that the second
Sunday in May be observed as Mother's Day.
Mother's Day received national recognition on May 9,
1914. On that day, President Woodrow Wilson signed a
joint resolution of Congress recommending that Congress
and the executive departments of the federal government
observe Mother's Day. The next year, President Wilson was
authorized to proclaim Mother's Day an annual national
observance.
Howe, Julia
Ward (1819-1910), an American writer, lecturer, and
reformer, was one of the most famous women of her time.
She wrote the words of "The Battle Hymn of the
Republic" and introduced the idea of Mother's Day.
Howe was born in New York City into a prominent family.
She married American social reformer Samuel Gridley Howe
in 1843 and moved to Boston. She wrote poems and plays
and helped her husband edit The Commonwealth, an
antislavery paper.
In 1861,
during the Civil War, Howe visited military camps near
Washington, D.C. There she was inspired to write
"The Battle Hymn of the Republic" to be sung to
the tune of the popular American song "John Brown's
Body." It was published in the Atlantic Monthly two
months later and became the major war song of the Union
forces.
After the war, Howe became increasingly interested in the
women's movement. In 1868, she helped organize the New
England Woman's Club and served for many years as its
president. Howe also became the first president of the
New England Woman Suffrage Association.
Howe became noted as a lecturer and writer on literary
and other cultural topics as well as on women's rights.
Her writings include A Trip to Cuba (1860), Sex and
Education (1874), Modern Society (1881), Margaret Fuller
(1883), and Reminiscences (1899). In 1908, she became the
first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and
Letters.
Civil War
soldiers liked to create their own marching songs by
singing humorous lyrics to familiar tunes. Early in the
war, Union soldiers began to sing the words "John
Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave" to the
tune of Steffe's hymn. In 1861, American poet and
reformer Julia Ward Howe heard an obscene version of the
"John Brown" song at a Union army camp. She
decided to write more appropriate lyrics and composed
"The Battle Hymn of the Republic." It was
published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and soon
appeared in all the Union army hymnbooks.
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