The Origin of Father's Day
Sonora Dodd, a resident of Washington, is credited with originating the concept of a "Father's Day." The idea struck her during a Mother's Day sermon in 1909. Dodd desired a special day to celebrate her own father, William Smart. A Civil War veteran, Smart faced the tragic loss of his wife, who died giving birth to their sixth child. Left to parent alone, he farms in eastern Washington State, raising the newborn alongside his other five children.
As Dodd matured, she recognized the immense sacrifice and courage her father exhibited as a single parent. In her eyes, he was a selfless and loving man. Since her father's birthday fell in June, she accordingly proposed the first Father's Day celebration in Spokane, Washington, on June 19th, 1910.
The idea gained recognition when President Calvin Coolidge supported a national Father's Day in 1924. Then, in 1966, President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation designating the third Sunday of June as Father's Day. President Richard Nixon later solidified it as a permanent holiday through an official law in 1972.
Quotes Regarding Fathers:
"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again." -- Enid Bagnold
"None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of SUCH a Father who has not his equal in this world—so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal." -- Queen Victoria of England
"That is the thankless position of the father in the family—the provider for all, and the enemy of all." -- J. August Strindberg
"It is a wise father that knows his own child." -- William Shakespeare
"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." -- English Proverb
"To be a successful father… there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years." -- Ernest Hemingway
"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection." -- Sigmund Freud
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