Mather was the grandson of one of the founders of the Connecticut Land Company that bought and surveyed the Western Reserve, which became Northeast Ohio. In 1881 Mather married Flora Stone, the dauther of industrialist Amasa Stone. Flora's sister Clara married John Hay. After their father died in 1883, they inherited his great wealth. With Hay and Mather as executors, the Stone estate later bought the old Franklin Buildings property on which Mather financed the new Western Reserve Building. The building became the headquarters for Pickands Mather and Co., the iron mining and shipping firm that Mather had co-founded in 1883. The firm became one of the principal iron ore companies in the U.S. and, for a time, made Mather the city's wealthiest man. In 1910 he built the most expensive home ever erected on Euclid Avenue, which stands today as part of Cleveland State University's campus. | Date: 1908 | Source: Iron Trade Review, Vol. 43, June 9, 1908Download Original File
