Fred Wiggo Mathisen
b. 16 November 1888
- Father: K. L. Mathisen
- Mother: Gunda (?)
- Fred Wiggo Mathisen was born on 16 November 1888 in Christina, Norway.
- Fred Wiggo Mathisen registered for the draft on 5 June 1917 in Los Angeles County, California, while living at 420 West Center in Covina with his wife and two children, employed as a missionary and pastor by California Bible House, claiming an exemption as a Seventh-day Adventist, and having served for two years as a privade in the National Guard.
- The following appeared on 5 May 1922 in the Oakland Tribune: Until Fred W. Mathison, stock promoter, is able to support his two children himself he will not be permitted to criticize the way in which their mother supports them. This was the ruling of Superior Judge T. W. Harris today, at the request of Mrs. Hazel Marguerite Mathison's attorney, J. R. Talbott.
Following testimony that Mathison had contributed only $120 toward the support of his children in the past year and a half, Talbott asserted that Mathison, on his visits to the children, who are in the care of his divorced wife, sought to influence them against their mother by telling them she wasn't supporting them properly.
"I can't put you in jail for failure to support your children," said Judge Harris to Mathison, "for you have no money. But if I again hear of your saying anything to them derogatory of their mother's manner of supporting them, I will deprive you of the right to see them at all." - He married Apolonia L. Kunz, daughter of John Kunz and Apolonia Weiler, on 25 September 1925 in Monrovia, Los Angeles County, California, by license dated the 24th, with Rev. J. W. McConiss, Seventh-day Adventist church minister, officiating. Witnesses were Mr. and Mrs. Paul O. Campbell. At the time of the marriage, bride and groom were residing in Eagle Rock.
- Last Edited: 31 May 2013