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	National Park Service: Biography (Stephen T. Mather)
		Mather was able to capitalize on these trends in his marketing efforts at the Thorkildsen-Mather Borax Company, which made him a millionaire, and in his public life as the first director of the National Park Service.
		Mather recognized magnificent scenery as the primary criterion for establishment of national parks.
		Mather was the first park professional to clearly articulate the policy which allowed the establishment of park concessioners to provide basic visitor comforts and services in the then undeveloped parks.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/sontag/mather.htm (422 words)

	Stephen Mather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mather was subsequently succeeded by Albright, so their joint philosophy was the foundation on which the NPS was built.
		Mather initiated efforts to build comfortable lodges and good roads in parks, and railroad and road access to the parks, to attract the increasing number of automobile drivers who took to the highways after World War I. He also made personal loans to concessionaires for improvements to facilities.
		Mather’s challenge was to build the park system, establish a professional ranger/manager corps free of the taint of patronage, partisan politics, and ward off the thrusts of the miners, loggers and grazers who would compromise and destroy their beloved parks.
	www.rpts.tamu.edu /Pugsley/Mather.htm (1774 words)

	Stephen T. Mather - Famous People Influenced by John Muir - John Muir Exhibit
		Mather is widely recognized for his efforts to preserve the national parks from private exploitation and to make them serve the high purposes for which they were designed.
		Mather did nonetheless go to Washington as an assistant secretary of the Interior, and lobbied for the establishment of a bureau to operate the national parks.
		Stephen Mather joined the Sierra Club in 1904, when the Club and John Muir was at the height of their campaign to recede Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Big Tree Grove, then in state hands, to the surrounding Yosemite National Park.
	www.sierraclub.org /john_muir_exhibit/people/mather.html (1064 words)

	Chicago Public Schools: OSHP High School Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mather is a neighborhood high school and accepts all students living in its attendance area.
		Stephen Tyng Mather High School, a Chicago public school, is located on the city's Northwest Side, one of the city's most diverse areas, and serves students from the surrounding neighborhood.
		Mather is a general neighborhood high school with a college preparatory emphasis.
	www.cps.k12.il.us /schools/hsdirectory/mather.shtml (206 words)

	Mather Lifeways
		Mather LifeWays is a not-for-profit organization originally established in 1941 as The Mather Foundation by Alonzo Mather, a humanitarian, philanthropist, and patron of the arts who created a home for "ladies of refinement" who lost their incomes when their husbands passed away.
		Mather was so moved by the sight of the battered animals that by the time his train arrived in New York, he had designed a new rail car.
		Mather had noticed that some of his business friends were leaving their widows unable to support themselves, so he used his estate for the widows' benefit.
	www.matherlifeways.com /root_history.asp (1332 words)

	Mathers of Darien: A History, from a lecture by Marian Castell, March 2001
		Timothy was known as "Farmer Mather." To his "beloved" wife Sarah, Richard gave "free liberty" to live for 3 or 4 months in his house after death, plus 100 pounds (she brought him a dower of 50 pounds).
		Stephen was a mountaineer at heart and in 1912 he met 80 year old John Muir and was inspired by him.
		Stephen came to Washington, and he was a striking figure of a man, handsome, over 6' tall with keen blueeyes and energy to wear out almost anyone, as well as the security of wealth.
	www.darien.org /historical/matherhistory.htm (3817 words)

	Great Lodges . Great Lodges of the National Parks . Canyon Lodges . Zion Park \| PBS
		And the UP had the funds that Stephen Mather, Director of the NPS, needed for proper development of his young National Parks System.
		The plans were rejected by Stephen Mather, Director of the NPS, and Daniel Hull, a senior NPS landscape engineer.
		Mather wanted a structure that would blend with the environment, and serve the needs of automobile travelers.
	www.pbs.org /opb/greatlodges/nationalparks/canyon/zion.html (574 words)

	Yosemite Blog » Blog Archive » Stephen Mather, First Director of the National Park Service
		Quite a few people have heard of Stephen Mather and most seem to have an acquaintance with the name, but few remember who he was or what he did.
		Mather, like most people, was quite taken with the national park but felt there wasn’t enough being done to protect them.
		Mather was strongly active in the Sierra Club having been influenced by the likes of Muir and LeConte and was appointed as honorary vice president of the Sierra Club in 1916.
	www.yosemiteblog.com /2005/05/05/stephen-mather-first-director-of-the-national-park-service (542 words)

	Conservation Hall of Fame - National Wildlife Federation
		Mather had a lifelong love of birds and other wildlife, and worked for wildlife protection.
		When he arrived in the nations capital, Mather immediately took up the task of securing a bureau for the management and protection of national parks and monuments.
		During Mather's 12 years on the job, the size of the national parks and the monuments under his jurisdiction nearly doubled.
	www.nwf.org /about/inductees_mather.cfm (270 words)

	Darien Answer Book: History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mather and 26 of his parishioners spent five months in British prisons in New York City before they were able to return home.
		Built in 1778 on Brookside Road by Deacon Joseph Mather, the Stephen Mather House is named for one of his descendants, who was instrumental in establishing the National Park Service in the early 1920’s.
		In the Mather cemetery, which is near the Stephen Mather house, are buried many members of the Mather family.
	www.acorn-online.com /news/publish/article_1176.shtml (1168 words)

	Park Service History
		Mather supported new national parks in areas that truly deserved park status--but opposed willy-nilly expansion as detrimental to the agency and the parks themselves.
		Mather was very strict with concessioners, and would have preferred to have a non-profit company run park hotels and stores.
		Mather believed that, once basic facilities such as roads and lodging were available, the parks could fund themselves out of user fees and concessioners' royalties.
	www.ti.org /npshist.html (6875 words)

	Kid-friendly Camp Mather / It's a safe haven for frazzled families
		In the early 1900s, Camp Mather was known as the Hog Ranch, used to house laborers working on the Hetch Hetchy dam.
		The lingering result is that half the campers slathering themselves with DEET on the dinner line are calling it Mather with a long 'a,' thanks to O'Shaughnessy's little jest, while the other half are pronouncing it Mather, like the actor who played the Beaver and the beleaguered park director himself.
		According to the Camp Mather brochure, campers staying in cabins should bring pillows, blankets, linen, a flashlight, extension cord, double socket and plug, padlock, clothes hangers, mosquito repellent and bike helmets.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/02/23/TR178559.DTL&type=printable (1380 words)

	The Kolb Diaries: Chapter 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In response to Emery's letter of 18 September, Stephen Mather, director of the National Park Service, advised him that he would be absolutely free to join the service, for no action of any kind would be taken regarding the concessions until after the war.
		Mather told him that if his brother ever came to Washington to be sure and have him come by the office and see him.
		Mather, any true American who knew what was going on about the Red Cross at the Canyon and didn't take an interest in it should be much more ashamed of himself.
	www.kaibab.org /kolb/06.html (6436 words)

	Stephen Tyng Mather - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stephen Tyng Mather (1867 - 1930) was a pioneering American industrialist and conservationist.
		Mather encouraged cooperation with the railroads in order to encourage visitiation to normally remote units of the National Park System, and thereby create a base of public support for the fledgling agency and its holdings with those who had seen them and gained a personal appreciation for them.
		Various places within today's National Park System are named after Mather, including Mather Point on the south rim of Grand Canyon National Park, Mather District in Yosemite National Park and Mather Gorge on the border of Great Falls Park and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stephen_Tyng_Mather (259 words)

	Camp Mather
		Even before the pioneers settled in California, Mather was home to a group of Miwok Indians, who made their camp near where the corral now stands.
		During this time, a sawmill was built on the lake side of Mather to supply the lumber needed for the dam's construction.
		San Francisco's sawmill at Mather, 1921. When timber supplies were exhausted at Canyon Ranch, this larger mill was put in operation at Mather and provided all lumber needed on the project until completion of the Mountain Division work. The lake is now used for swimming at Camp Mather.
	www.campmather.com /history.html (479 words)

	The Tioga Road; a History 1883-1961 (1961, 1980), “Automobiles Arrive,” by Keith A. Trexler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In January 1915, Stephen T. Mather, an enthusiastic booster of auto travel in the National Parks, accepted the post of Assistant to the Secretary of the Interior.
		Mather thought about all this and then began to show an inner turmoil, a characteristic mark of his approach to a weighty decision.
		Mather next organized the first of his famous “mountain trips,” outings designed to convince the influential or wealthy participants of the need for more and better National Parks.
	www.yosemite.ca.us /library/tioga_road/automobiles_arrive.html (1913 words)

	125th Anniversary (125-33)
		When Mather complained to his friend, Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane, about the mismanagement of the parks, Lane invited Mather to come to Washington and do something about it.
		Mather joined the Department of the Interior, bringing with him young Horace M. Albright (later Superintendent of Yellowstone and the second director of the National Park Service following Stephen Mather).
		Mather and Albright lobbied skillfully to overcome such opposition, gathering support from influential journalists, railroads likely to profit from increased park tourism, and members of Congress.
	www.geocities.com /jsmacdonaldjr/aug-18pr.htm (576 words)

	Press Releases - Media and Public Relations Office - The University of Nottingham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It was a team effort when keen amateur golfer Anne Mather qualified for the final of a major ladies tournament recently - she was playing with innovative new clubs designed by her husband, a researcher at The University of Nottingham.
		Dr Stephen Mather, of the University's School of Mechanical, Materials, Manufacturing Engineering and Management, has been designing golf clubs for leading manufacturers such as Wilson, Ping and Dunlop Slazenger for almost 20 years as part of the Sports Engineering Group.
		Dr Mather explained: "The new technology is in the woods and the putter.
	www.nottingham.ac.uk /public-affairs/press-releases/index.phtml?menu=pressreleasesarchive&code=SWI-132/03&create_date=24-nov-2003 (326 words)

	Stephen Mather Wilderness \| Montana \| State Parks
		For the Stephen Mather Wilderness, this process began in 1988 when 634,614 acres were designated by Public Law 100-668.
		The Stephen Mather Wilderness is part of the 106 million acre National Wilderness Preservation System.
		In an age of "...increasing population, accompanied by expanding settlement and growing mechanization," you play an important role in helping to "secure for the American people of present and future generations the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness" as called for by the Congress of the United States through the Wilderness Act of 1964.
	www.recreationfinder.com /montana/stephen-mather-wilderness.htm (312 words)

	Connecticut, Mather Meadows Protection Completed (CT): The Trust for Public Land
		The 9-acre property, which lies at the intersection of Stephen Mather and Brookside Roads, has been a longtime conservation priority because of its location across the street from Darien's only National Historic Landmark, the 1778 Mather Homestead.
		Mather Meadows is made up of two parcels located near the border of Darien, New Canaan, and Norwalk.
		Preservation of this local property is also important from a national perspective, because Stephen Mather, grandson of Deacon Joseph, was the founder of the National Park Service and helped to double the area protected as National Parks during his tenure as Assistant Secretary of the Interior from 1915-1929.
	www.tpl.org /tier3_cd.cfm?content_item_id=12884&folder_id=261 (1002 words)

	Connecticut, Campaign to Save Mather Meadows (CT) : The Trust for Public Land
		Deacon Mather's descendant, Stephen T. Mather, founded the National Park Service and as Assistant Secretary of the Interior doubled the national park area in the United States between 1915 and 1929.
		The Mather Homestead, which faces the meadows from the northwest corner of the intersection, is Darien's only National Historic Landmark, and one of only four in Fairfield County.
		The Mather Meadows are two of the last remaining open fields in a highly developed neighborhood of Darien and provide an important natural area for people and animals alike.
	www.tpl.org /tier3_cd.cfm?content_item_id=7262&folder_id=261 (957 words)

	The national and state park partnership: state parks create an enduring legacy within the national park system Parks ...
		It is safe to say that Mather, often referred to as the "father" and first director of the National Park Service (NPS), might well be blown away by the almost bewildering collection of designations applied to areas managed solely or cooperatively by the NPS.
		In 1921, at the primary instigation of Mather, a conference was convened in Des Moines, Iowa, by Edgar R. Harlan, curator of the Iowa State Historical Department, for the purpose of discussing the potential problems for park development throughout the country.
		Whatever the motivation, it seems clear that Mather was dedicated to a "two-tier" system of parks--national parks that represented the most awe-inspiring and superlative places in America (to be administered by the NPS) and areas of regional or lesser significance managed by other entities, primarily state park agencies.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1145/is_10_40/ai_n15863415 (840 words)

	Testimony of Gene Sykes
		In 1915, Stephen Mather, a California native and the first Director of the National Park Service, hit upon a novel idea.
		For instance, some of the roads and trails that Stephen Mather’s “mountain party” traversed in the summer of 1915 were first laid down or maintained by a company of fl soldiers from the 9th U.S. cavalry who patrolled the park in the summer of 1903.
		If Stephen Mather were to lead his “mountain party” on a 90th anniversary exploration of Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks, what might he and his colleagues find?
	www.npca.org /media_center/testimonies/testimony112805.html (6594 words)

	Welcome to Mather Alumni Organization
		The Mather High School Alumni are a part of a community that embodies the spirit, knowledge and wisdom fostered by this wonderful school.
		Mather has changed over the years, but itâs still a great place to get a quality secondary education.
		The broad goal is to connect alumni with present Mather students as these students move ahead in determining their career paths.
	www.matheralumni.org (322 words)

	Zion National Park History
		Mather was awed by the beauty of Zion National Park and visited Zion at least once each year from 1919 to 1929.
		Mather often brought influential traveling companions along on his annual pilgrimage to Zion Canyon.
		Mather began working with the people from several communities located in the Zion National Park area to get the nearby roads paved.
	www.travelwest.net /parks/zion/zion-national-park.html (689 words)

	Boundary of the Stephen Mather Wilderness in the North Cascades National Park Complex, Washington
		Boundary of the Stephen Mather Wilderness in the North Cascades National Park Complex, Washington
		Although North Cascades National Park was managed as wilderness from the very beginning, it was not until 1988 that its management policies were given the strength of law.
		The Wilderness is named for Stephen Mather (1867-1930), first director of the National Park Service (1916-1929).
	wa-node.gis.washington.edu /usgsbrd/cfs-noca-wildbndy.html (465 words)

	seMissourian.com: Story: Robert Mather
		He was born Sept. 8, 1933, in Norfolk, Va., son of Paul Lukor and Mary Hansberry Mather.
		Mather was a graduate of American University in Washington, D.C. He retired as a purchasing manager with Noranda Aluminum.
		Survivors include his wife; two sons, James Mather of Baton Rouge, La., Stephen Mather of Charleston, Mo.; four daughters, Annette Willis of Farmington, Mo., Paulette Boardman of Sikeston, Mary Watson of Pinckney, Mich., and Jeanette Mather of Bel Air, Md.
	www.semissourian.com /story/83282.html (216 words)

	The Wenatchee World Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Zipp said from a legal and practical standpoint, it would have been costly and impractical for the Park Service to rebuild a road after large areas were washed out.
		Rerouting the road would have required changing the boundaries of the Stephen Mather Wilderness Area, he said.
		With the road closed, the 100-foot wide non-wilderness road corridor above Car Wash Falls is now eligible to become part of the Stephen Mather Wilderness, with authorization from Congress, which is not currently proposed, the Park Service's written decision stated.
	www.wenworld.com /sub/story.php?id=1156616566-343-922 (518 words)

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