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Celebrations & Holidays > Mother's Day & Father's Day A brief history of Father's Day: 21 of 35

In 1909 a young woman was listening to a mothers day sermon. It was Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, Washington. This lecture inspired her to have a special day dedicated to her father, William Jackson Smart, a farmer and a civil war veteran, who had single- handedly raised her and her five other siblings after their mother had died. Sonora wanted her father to know how deeply touched she was by his sacrifices, courage, selflessness and love for his six children. She held the first fathers day celebration on the 19th June 1910, her own fathers birthday which the mayor of Spokane and the gover...
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