Who started the idea of Father's Day?

Answer 1

In 1909, Mrs. John B. Dodd, of Spokane Washington, first proposed the idea of a "Father's Day". Mrs. Dodd wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart. William Smart, a Civil War veteran, was widowed when his wife died in childbirth with their sixth child. Mr. Smart was left to raise all his children alone on a rural farm in eastern Washington state.

The first Father's Day was observed on June 19, 1910 in Spokane Washington. Mrs. Dodd wanted Father's Day to be celebrated on the first Sunday in June, her father's birthday. However, the Spokane council couldn't get the resolution through the first reading until the third Sunday in June. At about the same time in various towns and cities across American other people were beginning to celebrate a "father's day." In 1924 President Calvin Coolidge supported the idea of a national Father's Day. Finally in 1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father's Day.

Answer 2

The first Father's Day was organized by Mrs. Grace Golden Clayton in Fairmont, West Virginia on July 5, 1908. This was to celebrate the lives of the 210 fathers who had been lost in the Monongah Mining disaster several months earlier in Monongah, West Virginia, on December 6, 1907.

Answer 3

Father's Day was founded in Spokane, Washington at the YMCA in 1910 by Sonora Smart Dodd, who was born in Arkansas. Its first celebration was in the Spokane YMCA on June 19, 1910.Her father, the Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children there.[3] After hearing a sermon about Jarvis' Mother's Day in 1909, she told her pastor that fathers should have a similar holiday honoring them. Although she initially suggested June 5, her father's birthday, the pastors did not have enough time to prepare their sermons, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June.

Answer 4

Mrs. Sonora Dodd is believed to be the first person suggested the idea of celebrating Father's Day in honor of fathers in 1909.

Answer 5

Mrs Grace Golden Clayton from Fairmount ,Virginia on July5, 1908

Answer 6

It is not really found but to thank fathers for their love for children!