A Fortean—maybe—haunted by his own religious past, whose life shows how Forteanism was allied with skepticism early on—an odd sort of marriage.
Charles Gold Patterson was born in North Carolina sometime during 1871 to John Henry and Martha Margaret. He would become the eldest of seven siblings. In 1890, his mother converted to the Church of Latter Day Saints. His father converted the following year. By 1900, he and a brother were boarding in American Fork, Utah, where he was teaching and his brother at school. Shortly after that, Charles married Viola, and they had two children, Dale and Ora, by 1910, when they had established their own household, in Salt Lake City, Charles working a white-collar job. Patterson was high up in the LDS hierarchy, serving as Bishop of the American Fork Ward from 1901 to 1903 (http://www.newspapers.com/image/25610835/).
Charles Gold Patterson was born in North Carolina sometime during 1871 to John Henry and Martha Margaret. He would become the eldest of seven siblings. In 1890, his mother converted to the Church of Latter Day Saints. His father converted the following year. By 1900, he and a brother were boarding in American Fork, Utah, where he was teaching and his brother at school. Shortly after that, Charles married Viola, and they had two children, Dale and Ora, by 1910, when they had established their own household, in Salt Lake City, Charles working a white-collar job. Patterson was high up in the LDS hierarchy, serving as Bishop of the American Fork Ward from 1901 to 1903 (http://www.newspapers.com/image/25610835/).