In 1910, a Father's Day celebration was held in Spokane, Washington, at the YMCA by Sonora Smart Dodd, who was born in Arkansas.[1] Its first celebration was in the Spokane YMCA on June 19, 1910.[1][2] Her father, the Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children there.[1] After hearing a sermon about Jarvis' Mother's Day in 1909 at Central Methodist Epis