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Elizabeth Mortensen 1906 - 1985

Elizabeth Mortensen of New London, New London County, CT was born on November 16, 1906, and died at age 79 years old in December 1985.

Elizabeth Mortensen

New London, New London County, CT 06320

November 16, 1906

December 1985

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In 1906, in the year that Elizabeth Mortensen was born, author Upton Sinclair exposed the public-health threat of the meat-packing industry in his book The Jungle. While his intent was to show the lives of exploited lives of immigrants in Chicago and other industrialized cities, most people were horrified by how the meat that ended up on their tables was handled. There was such an outcry that legislation was passed to regulate meat packing. Sinclair said " "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."

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In 1914, she was only 8 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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