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SUMMARY:Father’s Day
DESCRIPTION:The nation’s first Father’s Day was celebrated on June 19, 1910, in the state of Washington. However, it was not until 1972–58 years after President Woodrow Wilson made Mother’s Day official–that the day honoring fathers became a nationwide holiday in the United States. Father’s Day.\nMother’s Day: Inspiration for Father’s Day\nThe “Mother’s Day ( http://www.history.com/topics/holidays/mothers-day )” we celebrate today has its origins in the peace-and-reconciliation campaigns of the post-Civil War ( http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/american-civil-war-history ) era. During the 1860s, at the urging of activist Ann Reeves Jarvis, one divided West Virginia ( https://www.history.com/topics/us-states/west-virginia ) town celebrated “Mother’s Work Days” which brought together the mothers of Confederate and Union soldiers.\nDid you know? There are more than 70 million fathers in the United States.\nHowever, Mother’s Day did not become a commercial holiday until 1908, when–inspired by Jarvis’s daughter, Anna Jarvis, who wanted to honor her own mother by making Mother’s Day a national holiday–the John Wanamaker department store in Philadelphia sponsored a service dedicated to mothers in its auditorium.\nThanks in large part to this association with retailers, who saw great potential for profit in the holiday, Mother’s Day caught on right away. In 1909, 45 states observed the day, and in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson ( https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/woodrow-wilson ) approved a resolution that made the second Sunday in May a holiday in honor of “that tender, gentle army, the mothers of America.”\nOrigins of Father’s Day\nThe campaign to celebrate the nation’s fathers did not meet with the same enthusiasm–perhaps because, as one florist explained, “fathers haven’t the same sentimental appeal that mothers have.”\nOn July 5, 1908, a West Virginia ( https://www.history.com/topics/us-states/virginia ) church sponsored the nation’s first event explicitly in honor of fathers, a Sunday sermon in memory of the 362 men who had died in the previous December’s explosions at the Fairmont Coal Company mines in Monongah, but it was a one-time commemoration and not an annual holiday.\nThe next year, a Spokane, Washington ( https://www.history.com/topics/us-states/washington ), woman named Sonora ( https://www.history.com/topics/mexico/sonora ) Smart Dodd, one of six children raised by a widower, tried to establish an official equivalent to Mother’s Day for male parents. She went to local churches, the YMCA, shopkeepers and government officials to drum up support for her idea, and she was successful: Washington State celebrated the nation’s first statewide Father’s Day on June 19, 1910.\n
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