The Fred E. Curtis Papers: LDS Church Surveillance of Fundamentalist Mormons, 1937-1954 Fred E. Curtis (1900-1967), an LDS bishop in the Hawthorne Ward, Granite Stake, was given a special assignment by the First Presidency in the 1930’s to observe 20th-century Mormon holdouts in his vicinity who continued to believe in, preach and/or practice plural marriage. …