firm had 450 employees and $11 million in sales." Stephen Birch resigned as President of the Kennecott Copper Company in 1933 and was replaced by E.T Stannard. "Birch continued as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee. In addition to his positions with Kennecott, Birch was president and director of the Alaska Steamship Company, chairman of the board of directors of the Braden Copper Company, and a director of the Alaska Development and Mineral Company, the Banker's Trust company of New York, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company, the Colorado and Southern Railway Company and the Northern Pacific Railway Company." "At his death, Kennecott held nearly 15 percent of the world's known copper resources and was the largest copper producer in the United States." Also, in the year of his death, "the company employed 28,872 employees and had sales of $177,250,036." Kennecott Copper Company's original location in Alaska is now frequently referred to as a "ghost town" and is a tourist attraction. The buildings and mills are still standing but remain untouched, as the company's Alaska location closed down many years ago. Birch is positively renowned for his successful business ventures and has received various honors such as being inducted into the Mining Hall of Fame and being named among the 20th Century American Leaders by Harvard Business School. Personal life Birch married Mary C. Rand in Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 24, 1916. His best man was longtime friend, Henry O. Havemeyer. He and his wife had two children whom they named Stephen and Mary. The Havemeyers sold their mansion and 730 acres of their estate to Birch and the York Room was added to the mansion for his daughter Mary and her husband in the 1920s. He lived in the mansion with his family until he died at age 68 at Doctors Hospital on December 29, 1940. "Birch is buried at Ferncliff Mausoleum in Hartsdale, New York. A stained glass window depicting Alaskan mountain scenery adorns this mausoleum." After his death, his estate went to his son, Stephen. Stephen died in 1970 at the same time that the founders of Ramapo College were searching for land to build the school on. After visiting the land, it was decided that the Birch estate would be the new home to Ramapo College. "The final settlement on all of the Birch property was not concluded until 1972 for $3,133,000