Stephen Mather
Entrepreneur
Industrialist, conservationist, and owner of Thorkildsen-Mather Borax Company.
He received a degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1887.
He suffered from a severe episode of bipolar disorder in 1903.
He married Jane Thacker Floy in 1893.
He became a dedicated conservationist who followed in the footsteps of the influential John Muir.