| 词条 | William G. Mather |
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|name=William Gwinn Mather |image=William G. Mather, 1902.jpg |birth_date={{birth date|1857|9|22}} |death_date={{death date and age|1951|4|5|1857|9|22}} |birth_place=Cleveland |death_place=Bratenahl |restingplace=Lake View Cemetery |alma_mater=Trinity College }} William Gwinn Mather (September 22, 1857 – April 5, 1951)[1] was an American industrialist. Mather was born in Ohio and attended Trinity College for his undergraduate and MA degrees. Mather headed the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company for 50 years from 1890 through 1940. During his tenure he consolidated several mining operations and diversified into iron-ore industries and steel operations. The company's flagship bulk freighter was named in his honor, and today serves as a maritime museum in Cleveland, Ohio. Gwinn EstateMather is also known for the palatial estate he built outside of Cleveland and the gardens designed by Charles A. Platt, Ellen Biddle Shipman, and Warren H. Manning.[2] The gardens, named for Mather's mother Elizabeth Lucy Gwinn, include a mixture of formal and "wild" gardens and extensive statuary and fountains designed by significant sculptors including Paul Manship. Gwinn MichiganIn 1901, Mather purchased land in Marquette County, Michigan for his company's operations. He had Warren H. Manning design a residential community to support his operations. On June 24, 2002, Gwinn, Michigan was listed in the National Register of Historic Places as the "Gwinn Model Town Historic District, Forsyth Township, Marquette County, Michigan".{{citation needed|date=August 2017}} See also
References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=19455744&PIpi=35771512|title=William G. Mather's Death Certificate|accessdate=May 23, 2015}} 2. ^{{cite journal|title=Review of The Muses of Gwinn: Art and Nature in a Garden Designed by Warren H. Manning, Charles A. Platt and Ellen Biddle Shipman|first=Phyllis|last=Andersen|date=24 August 1996|publisher=|journal=Arnoldia|volume=56|issue=1|pages=29–32|jstor = 42955367}}
6 : 1857 births|1951 deaths|Businesspeople from Cleveland|Burials at Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland|Trinity College (Connecticut) alumni|19th-century American businesspeople |
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