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More than a century ago, Sonora Louise Smart Dodd aspired to create a holiday to honor fathers.
Dodd, who was the daughter of single father and civil war veteran William Jackson Smart, held her father in great esteem. When Dodd heard a sermon about the newly recognized Mother’s Day, she wondered why there wasn’t a holiday for fathers, as well.
After securing support from ministers in Spokane, Washington, Dodd’s idea came to fruition when the first Father's Day celebration took place at the Spokane YMCA on June 19, 1910.
More than a century ago, Sonora Louise Smart Dodd aspired to create a holiday to honor fathers.
Dodd, who was the daughter of single father and civil war veteran William Jackson Smart, held her father in great esteem.
When Dodd heard a sermon about the newly recognized
Mother’s Day, she wondered why there wasn’t a
holiday for fathers, as well.
After securing support from ministers in
Spokane, Washington, Dodd’s idea came to
fruition when the first Father's Day celebration took place at the Spokane YMCA on June 19, 1910.
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