The earliest known celebration of Father’s Day took place in Fairmont, West Virginia on July 5, 1908. The event was organized by Grace Golden Clayton, with the desire to honor the lives of 361 deaths in the ears. The mine-sinking tragedy of the Monongah Mines disaster in Monongah, West Virginia, on December 6, 1907 a few months ago, of which 250 were fathers were injured, leaving about a thousand orphaned children. Clayton may have been influenced by the celebration of Mother’s Day for the first time that year, and only a few miles away.