Sam Wilder

Samuel "Sam" Wilder was the Whitelighter and lover of a witch named Patty Halliwell and is the father of the Charmed One, Paige Matthews.

History
Not much is known of his life as a mortal, but he did receive the New York's Teacher of the Year Award for 1872.

Whitelighter
After his death, Sam chose to become a Whitelighter at the behest of the the Elders. One of his charges was Patty Halliwell. During the end of her marriage to her husband, Victor Bennett, Patty fell in love with Sam and he fathered her fourth child. Fearing repercussions if their relationship were to be discovered by the Elders, as relationships between Whitelighters and their charges were forbidden, Sam and Patty took their newborn daughter to a church and gave her up to a nun. They requested only that she be given to a good home and that her name start with a "P," like the rest of the members of the Halliwell family. That daughter later on grew up to be the Charmed One, Paige Matthews.