<P> After Anna Jarvis ' successful promotion of Mother 's Day in Grafton , West Virginia , the first observance of a `` Father 's Day '' was held on July 5 , 1908 , in Fairmont , West Virginia , in the Williams Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South , now known as Central United Methodist Church . Grace Golden Clayton was mourning the loss of her father , when in December 1907 , the Monongah Mining Disaster in nearby Monongah killed 361 men , 250 of them fathers , leaving around a thousand fatherless children . Clayton suggested that her pastor Robert Thomas Webb honor all those fathers . </P>
<P> After Anna Jarvis ' successful promotion of Mother 's Day in Grafton , West Virginia , the first observance of a `` Father 's Day '' was held on July 5 , 1908 , in Fairmont , West Virginia , in the Williams Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South , now known as Central United Methodist Church . Grace Golden Clayton was mourning the loss of her father , when in December 1907 , the Monongah Mining Disaster in nearby Monongah killed 361 men , 250 of them fathers , leaving around a thousand fatherless children . Clayton suggested that her pastor Robert Thomas Webb honor all those fathers . </P>
when was the first father 's day observed
when was the first father 's day observed
July 5 , 1908
July 5 , 1908