Ann Reeves Jarvis
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Born in 1832, in 1858 she organized Mothers' Day Work Clubs in Taylor County to improve sanitation and public health. After the Civil War began, Jarvis united women on both sides of the conflict to care for the sick and wounded. Postwar, she started Mothers Friendship Day to encourage peace between former foes.
Jarvis, the inspiration for Mother's Day, died May 9, 1905.
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