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Jack Ellis (JE) Haynes (1884-1962) was the son Frank Jay (FJ) Haynes (1853-1921), pioneer photographer for the Northern Pacific Railroad and Yellowstone National Park concessionaire. Jack Haynes was born in 1884 in St. Paul, MN and began working in the Haynes Photo Shops in Yellowstone National Park in 1894 when he was only 10 years old. He assumed ownership of Haynes, Inc. in 1916 when his father retired. This was also the year that the National Park Service was established. Jack grew up at Mammoth Hot Springs next door to Fort Yellowstone. Jack Haynes owned and managed Haynes, Inc. for 46 years, from 1916 until his death in 1962. Jack had personally known many of the important characters in Yellowstone National Park history, including William Henry Jackson and Horace Albright. Historian Aubrey Haines wrote in the preface to The Yellowstone Story, his extensive and definitive history of Yellowstone Park, that Jack was truly an authority on Yellowstone because of his extensive involvement in virtually every aspect of life in the park. Jack Haynes's lifelong commitment to the spirit of Yellowstone National Park earned him the nickname Mr. Yellowstone.