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Though a Father's Day service was held on July 5, 1908 in West Virginia to honor the fathers killed in the Monongah Mine Disaster, it is Sonora Smart Dodd who is credited as the founder of the official American national holiday.
Sonora Smart Dodd lobbied local church and public officials for its creation. In the years that followed, Father’s Day grew to become an international event and Dodd lived to see President Richard Nixon declare it an official U.S. holiday in 1972.
Jun 14, 2018 · The story goes that William’s daughter, Sonora Smart Dodd, was attending one of the first official Mother’s Day services in 1909 at her church in Spokane, Washington, when she had an...
Jun 18, 2023 · The late Sonora Smart Dodd launched the celebration of dads in 1910 in her hometown of Spokane, Washington.
Jun 20, 2021 · Sonora Smart Dodd wanted to honor her widowed dad, a farmer and Civil War veteran. She partnered with big business to make it happen.
Jun 16, 2023 · Here’s what to know about the mother of Father's Day, Sonora Louise Smart Dodd, and her 62-year campaign to establish Father’s Day as a national holiday. The origins of Father’s Day. In 1898,...
Jun 16, 2023 · Sonora Louise Smart Dodd is known as the “Mother of Father’s Day.” She began trying to make Father’s Day an officially recognized holiday in 1909. Sonora Smart was born on February 18, 1882, in Jenny Lind (Sebastian County), the daughter of William Jackson Smart, a farmer and Civil War veteran, and Ellen Victoria Cheek Smart. She was ...
Jun 16, 2023 · Sonora Smart Dodd was the daughter of the veteran and devoted father William Jackson Smart, who was forced to raise six children when his wife died. Inspired by her incredible...
Jun 16, 2017 · Sonora Smart Dodd, a young Spokane mother, artist, and poet, conceived the idea in 1909 when she was sitting in Spokane’s Central Methodist Church listening to a Mother’s Day sermon extolling the virtues of mothers.
Jun 18, 2017 · On Mother’s Day in 1909, 28-year-old Sonora Smart Dodd sat in a Spokane church, turning a question over in her mind as the preacher spoke in glowing terms of the virtues of motherhood. Why,...
