Fathers Day was inaugurated in the United States in the early 20th century to complement Mothers Day in celebrating fatherhood and male parenting. After the success obtained by Anna Jarvis with the promotion of Mothers Day in Grafton, West Virginia, the first observance of Fathers Day was held on July 5, 1908, in Fairmont, West Virginia, in the Williams Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South, now known as Central United Methodist Church. Grace Golden Clayton was mourning the loss of her father when, in December 1907, the Monongah Mining Disaster in nearby Monongah killed 361 men, 250 of them fathers, leaving around a thousand fatherless children. Clayton suggested to her pastor Robert Thomas Webb to honour all those fathers. Clayton’s event did not have repercussions outside of Fairmont for several reasons, among them: the city was overwhelmed by other
events, the celebration was never promoted outside of the town itself and no proclamation was made in the city council. Also two events overshadowed this event: the celebration of Independence Day – July 4, 1908, with 12,000 attendants and several shows including a hotair balloon event, which took over the headlines in the following days, and the death of a 16-year-old girl on July 4. The local church and council were overwhelmed and they did not even think of promoting the event, and it was not celebrated again for many years. The original sermon was not reproduced in the press and it was lost. Finally, Clayton was a quiet person, who never promoted the event or even talked to other persons about it. Clayton also may have been inspired by Anna Jarvi’s crusade to establish Mothers Day; two months prior, Jarvis had held a celebration for her dead mother in Grafton, West Virginia, a town about 15 miles (24km) away from Fairmont. (FROM WIKIPEDIA)
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