how fathers day started

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1. Guest8042
   

   The most widely known  story about the origins of Father's Day is said to have  its roots in the year of 1909.  Mrs. John B. Dodds, from  Spokane, Washington, was the one who started the campaign for a Father's Day celebration. The idea came to her while she listed to a church sermon on the virtues of Mother's Day.

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2. Guest2667
   

    Father's Day is a celebration of fathers inaugurated in the early twentieth century to complement Mother's Day in celebrating fatherhood and male parenting. It is also celebrated to honor and commemorate our forefathers. Father's Day is celebrated on a variety of dates worldwidde and typically invloves gift-giving, special dinner to fathers, and famaily oriented activities.

   
   

   The first observance of Father's day actually took place in Fairmont, West Virginia on July 5, 1908. the special day wass organized by Mrs. Grace Golden Clayton, who wanted to celebrate the lives of the 210 fathers who had been lost in the monongah Mining disaster several months earlier in Monogah, West Virginia, on december 6, 1907. The first Father's Day Church, now thecentral united Methodist Church, still stands in Fairmont today.

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