Stephen Mather and Bob Yard met as cub reporters for the New York Sun in the 1890s. After Yard served as best man at Mather’s wedding, Mather left the newspaper business to please his new wife, who ...

Mather's love of the parks was highly personal: he had found that time in nature helped him ward off the bouts of depression to which he was prone. Stephen Mather was the first director of the ...