<P> 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 . After hearing a sermon about Jarvis ' Mother 's Day at Central Methodist Episcopal Church 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 . </P>
<P> 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 . After hearing a sermon about Jarvis ' Mother 's Day at Central Methodist Episcopal Church 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 . </P>
in the united states who is the founder of father 's day
in the united states who is the founder of father 's day
Sonora Smart Dodd
Sonora Smart Dodd