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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Anna Jarvis (1864-1948) Papers, A&M 1175, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, speeches, business and legal papers, newspaper clippings, and photographs of the founder of Mother's Day. The collection includes papers of Anna's father, Grandville E. Jarvis; the notes and typescript drafts of "Recollections of Ann M. Jarvis, 1833-1905," by Anna Jarvis; and the papers of the Fairmont songwriter, William Lynett. Subjects include Jarvis' efforts to institute Mother's Day on a state basis, and her later protest against the commercialization of the day of remembrance; Jarvis coal and farm lands in Taylor County; real estate holdings in Philadelphia; Quaker City Cab Company; and her activities in the library department of a Philadelphia insurance company. Correspondents include Mrs. W.R. Hearst, Spessard L. Holland, John T. McGraw, John W. Mason, Matthew M. Neely, and Jennings Randolph.

Related Material

1175, 1439

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Fairmont.
• Jarvis, Anna, 1864-1948
• Lynett, William.
• Mother's Day
• Taylor County (W. Va.)
• Women's history -- 1850-1899
• Women's history -- 1900-1929
• Women's history -- 1929-1950