The early life of the criminal known as Father Time are largely  a mystery.  He claims to have been a scientist focused on temporal physics and had developed a device, formed a a scythe, that could caused a change in a person or substance to an earlier or later version. 

Father Time first came to attention in the winter of 1948 when he started a series of thefts in New York City focused on antiquities.   Loaning his scythe to his minions, he sent them to rob a downtown museum.  Foolishly, the minions could not resist testing the scythe and did things like turn a stack of newspaper back into wood, a horse into a colt and a squad car into it's components parts.   As the robbed the museum, the fled directly into the path of Ted Grant, who quickly changed into Wildcat to intercept them. After a brief scuffle, one of the things brains Wildcat with an andiron and they group flees.  The museum curator rushes out and exclaims the crooks had stolen priceless colonial artifacts.  To their confusion, Wildcat reveals that the andiron is brand new.    Searching the area leads to a note dropped by the crooks which gives Wildcat an idea.

Back at Father Time's hourglass shaped hideout, the villain castigates his minions for their sloppiness with the scythe.   Father Time and his gang approach a book dealer about a priceless original of Shakespeare's "Hamlet",  When the document is preferred, a surreptitious touch of the scythe renders into a new form.  Scoffing, Father Time summons "the police" to take the document into evidence for fraud.  The book keeper laughs as the fake cops arrive and reveals himself to be Wildcat in disguise.    A melee ensues and Wildcat is eventually over-powered and taken captive by Father Time.

Back at the hideout, Father Time lectures Wildcat on the wonders of his invention.  To demonstrate, he turns one of his henchmen into a boy.  As Wildcat breaks free, one of the crooks flings a bucket of sawdust at him, which when touched by the scythe, refers to its original form: A stockade.  Trapped within it, Wildcat is left behind while the crooks go to rob a coin collections.

Later at the Treasury Building, Father Time is inspecting some rare doubloons when he suddenly declares them fake and too new to be real.  Again using the fake police scheme. Father Time instructs his men to take the coins as "evidence" but they gang is surprised when Wildcat bursts in and quickly subdues them, leaving them for the real police to pick up (Sensation Comics #74).

The later activities of Father Time remain unrecorded.

NOTE: A similarly named villain battled Hawkman in 1942 but any connection between the two is unrevealed.