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Sonora Louise Smart Dodd (February 18, 1882 – March 22, 1978) was the daughter of American Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, and was responsible for the founding of Father's Day.
Jun 14, 2018 · The story goes that William’s daughter, Sonora Smart Dodd, was attending one of the first official Mother’s Day services in 1909 at her church in Spokane, Washington, when she had an...
Jun 16, 2023 · In 1898, Sonora Louise Smart Dodd was just 16 years old when her mother died. Her newly widowed father, Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, was left to raise Dodd and her five...
Jun 18, 2023 · Sonora Smart Dodd lobbied local church and public officials for its creation. In the years that followed, Father’s Day grew to become an international event and Dodd lived to see President Richard Nixon declare it an official U.S. holiday in 1972. (AP Photo/Jeff T. Green, File) Read More. By John Rogers. Published 5:02 AM PDT, June 18, 2023.
Jun 20, 2021 · Sonora Smart Dodd wanted to honor her widowed dad, a farmer and Civil War veteran. She partnered with big business to make it happen.
Jun 18, 2023 · The late Sonora Smart Dodd launched the celebration of dads in 1910 in her hometown of Spokane, Washington.
Dec 30, 2009 · The next year, a Spokane, Washington, woman named Sonora Smart Dodd, one of six children raised by a widower, tried to establish an official equivalent to Mother’s Day for male parents.
Jun 16, 2023 · Sonora Louise Smart Dodd is known as the “Mother of Father’s Day.” She began trying to make Father’s Day an officially recognized holiday in 1909. Sonora Smart was born on February 18, 1882, in Jenny Lind (Sebastian County), the daughter of William Jackson Smart, a farmer and Civil War veteran, and Ellen Victoria Cheek Smart. She was ...
Sonora Smart Dodd, a young Spokane mother, artist, and poet, conceived the idea in 1909 when she was sitting in Spokane’s Central Methodist Church listening to a Mother’s Day sermon extolling the virtues of mothers.
Jun 18, 2023 · The late Sonora Smart Dodd launched the celebration of dads in 1910 in her hometown of Spokane, Washington. As a result, she is the one responsible for those annual gifts that run the gamut from...
