The creation of a holiday
- West Virginia activist Anna Jarvis is credited with creating the Mother's day holiday that is celebrated today.
- In 1908, she campaigned for a national observance of the holiday in honor of her mother, who was a community health advocate.
- However, Jarvis later became disillusioned by how floral and greeting card companies commercialized the holiday and said she regretted starting it.
- It became an official US holiday in 1914 when President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the second Sunday in May as a day of "public expression of our love and reverence for the mothers of our country."
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