<P> Charles Mallory Hatfield (July 15, 1875--January 12, 1958) was an American "rainmaker". </P> <P> Hatfield was born in Fort Scott, Kansas on July 15, 1875 . His family moved to Southern California in the 1880s . As an adult, he became a salesman for the New Home Sewing Machine Company . In 1904, he moved to Glendale, California . </P> <P> In his free time Hatfield read about "pluviculture" and began to develop his own methods for producing rain . By 1902 he had created a secret mixture of 23 chemicals in large galvanized evaporating tanks that, he claimed, attracted rain . Hatfield called himself a "moisture accelerator". </P>

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