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Bessie Lancaster 1900 - 1984

Bessie Lancaster of Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, PA was born on May 30, 1900, and died at age 83 years old in April 1984.

Bessie Lancaster

Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, PA 17022

May 30, 1900

April 1984

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May 30, 1900

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In 1900, in the year that Bessie Lancaster was born, when Floradora opened on Broadway. A huge success in London - opening in 1899 and running for 455 performances - the musical was even more successful in New York - running for 552 performances. The "Floradora girls" were the hit of the show - a "sextette of tall, gorgeous damsels, clad in pink walking costumes, black picture hats and carrying frilly parasols who swished onto the stage and captivated New York for no other reason than they were utterly stunning" ("tall and gorgeous" translated to 5'4"). A sensation, each Floradora girl was said to have married a millionaire.

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In 1914, she was merely 14 years old when President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.

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