Father's Day - What's The Origin About It?

In 1909, after the Mrs

In 1909, after the Mrs. Dodd, Sonora Louise Smart Dodd who was living in Spokane of Washington attended a Mother's Day worship which was organized by a church, she had a deep feeling that "why is there no holiday for memory fathers?"

Mrs. Dodd's mother died when she was thirteen years old and left six children. Therefore, her father Mr. William Smart who worked in a farm

in the east of Washington raised the six children alone. Mr. William Smart ever made more contribution during he joined the North and South War of American, but he decided to take care of his six children after his wife died and out from the army.

Mrs. Dodd was the second child and the only daughter among the six. So, she was easy to realize his father's pain for hard working in day time and taking care of the children's life after go home. But it was pity that he was died when his children were grow up and had the ability to give a good life for him in 1909.

Mrs. Dodd was so miss her father after she attended Mother's Day worship. And until that time, she knew that her father paid as much as any mother's hard work and love in the process of bring up their children. Therefore, Mrs. Dodd told his feeling to the Church's priest Rev.

Rasmus and she hoped to have a special day to show great honor to Mr. William Smart and to commemorate all the fathers of the world.

The priest Rev. Rasmus was deeply touched by the Mr. Smart's spirit and great love after he heard the story of him. And he appreciated and supported of Mrs. Dodd who liked to promote the "Father's Day". So, Mrs. Dodd began to build a "Father's Day" in spring of 1910 and she got support from different church organizations. Then she immediately wrote a letter to the mayor and the state government to express her ideas and proposals. At last, thanks to her efforts, the mayor of Spokane and the governor of Washington publicly expressed support for her idea, and Washington held the first "Father's day" on 19th, June, 1910 in the world.

In 1924, the President Calvin Coolidge of U.S. supported Father's Day as a holiday in America; in 1966, President Lyndon Johnson announced the third Sunday of June which also the Mr. Smart's birthday as "Father's Day"; in 1972, president Richard Nixon sighed the official document and ensure the third Sunday of June is the Father's Day of United Stated and became the permanent national memorial day.

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