1845

Mary Caroline Page (Fillmore) was born in Pagetown, Ohio, August 6. As a small girl, she adopted the name Myrtle. She graduated from Oberlin College and later secured a teaching position in Clinton, Missouri. Not a robust person, she was reared in the belief that she was a semi-invalid because she had inherited tuberculosis.

1854

Charles Sherlock Fillmore was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, August 22.

1864

Charles was in a skating accident; his hip was dislocated, and disease of the hip developed, leaving him with a withered leg.

1869

Charles went to work as a printer's helper. He was tutored by Mrs. Edgar Taylor and was influenced by the writings of Shakespeare, Tennyson, Emerson, and Lowell. He later worked as a grocery clerk and in a bank.

1874

Charles left Minnesota for Caddo, just north of the Texas border in the Indian Territory that is now Oklahoma. Later that year he left Caddo for Dennison, Texas.

1876

Charles met Myrtle Page in Texas.

1879

Charles became a mule-team driver in Colorado; he later became an assayer and sold real estate. Myrtle left Texas and returned to Clinton.

1881

Charles and Myrtle Fillmore married and settled in Colorado.

1882

Lowell Fillmore was born in Pueblo, Colorado.

1884

The Fillmores' second son, Waldo Rickert Fillmore, was born in Pueblo. The Fillmore family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where Charles sold real estate.

1886

Charles and Myrtle attended a New Thought lecture by Dr. E. B. Weeks. Myrtle, who was very ill, quickly accepted the ideas presented.

1887

Charles' interest in New Thought plunged him into the study of many religions and philosophies. He had a dream that foretold his work in Kansas City.