The movement was advocated by Sonora Smart Dodd to pay homage to her father, William Jackson Smart, a war veteran who was also a single father to six children after his wife died from childbirth.

The movement was advocated by Sonora Smart Dodd to pay homage to her father, William Jackson Smart, a war veteran who was also a single father to six children after his wife died from childbirth ...

PEREZ: She filed a petition to create one soon after. By the next year, 1910, the first Father's Day was officially celebrated in Spokane. But Sonora Smart Dodd wasn't done promoting the holiday.

But Sonora Smart Dodd wasn't done promoting the holiday. DUVALL: She basically sort of partnered up with retailers' associations, merchants, who saw this as an opportunity to sell tobacco and whiskey ...

In 1972, when Sonora Smart Dodd was 92 years old, President Richard Nixon signed it into law as an official national observance. TBR News Media is your local news and entertainment website. We provide ...

Father’s Day was started by Sonora Smart Dodd in 1909, inspired by her love for her father, W. Jackson Smart, who raised her and her siblings alone, after her mother’s death.

When Anna Jarvis established the first Mother’s Day observance in 1908, Sonora Smart Dodd wasn’t far behind her. Dodd, who was inspired to create Father’s Day after hearing a Mother’s Day sermon, ...

Sonora Smart Dodd (1882-1978) was so inspired by a Mothers’ Day sermon she heard in 1908 that she began a movement to establish a similar day for fathers. The first Father’s Day observance was held ...

Interestingly, this celebration was started way back in 1910 in America by a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd in honour of her father Smart who single-handedly raised his six children.

On the third Sunday of every June, Americans organize barbecues, gift-wrap ties and sign cards to celebrate everything dads do for their families. But one American mom, the late Sonora Smart Dodd ...