President Woodrow Wilson
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President Woodrow Wilson is shown in this 1917 photograph with his wife on their way to his second inauguration. Wilson signed a proclamation in 1914, which made Mother's Day an offically recognized day. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
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Mother’s Day
Historical Marker #191 in Henderson County remembers Mary Towles Sasseen Wilson, a Henderson school teacher who is recognized as the first person to celebrate Mother's Day in 1887.
Mary was born March 5, 1860, in Henderson, Kentucky. The…