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Stephen Tyng Mather (July 4, 1867 – January 22, 1930) was an American industrialist and conservationist who was the first director of the National Park Service. As president and owner of Thorkildsen-Mather Borax Company he became a millionaire.
Stephen Tyng Mather (4 de julio de 1867 - 22 de enero de 1930) fue un industrial y ecologista estadounidense, propietario y presidente de Thorkildsen-Mather Borax Company, empresa que lo convirtió en millonario.
Industrialist, conservationist, first Director of the National Park Service. Place of Birth: San Francisco, California. Date of Birth: July 4, 1867. Place of Death: Brookline, Massachusetts. Date of Death: January 22, 1930. Place of Burial: Darien, Fairfield County, Connecticut. Cemetery Name: Mather Cemetery.
27 de mar. de 2017 · Stephen T. Mather. Stephen Tyng Mather led a full active life of 63 years, from 1867 to 1930. The years spanning the turn of the century saw vast changes in the country's demographics, as well as the development of modern forms of transportation and communication, and increased leisure time.
His Puritan ancestors hated and feared the wilderness that surrounded them, but Stephen Mather found a balm for his mental illness in the wild. To him we owe the National Park Service.
Stephen Tyng Mather, the great-grandson of Deacon Joseph Mather who built the Mather Homestead in 1778, was born on July 4, 1867 in Berkeley, California. He was named after the prominent New York Episcopal Minister, Stephen Tyng, who married his parents, Joseph W. Mather and Bertha Walker Mather, three years earlier in New York.
4 de jul. de 2024 · NPS Director Stephen T. Mather riding in a motorcycle sidecar in Yellowstone National Park (photo by NP Gallery) Mather fostered the legislation that formed the National Park Service in 1916 and then used his position as founding director to protect and enhance the parks.
