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May 18, 2018 · Leland Stanford. Leland Stanford (1824-1893), American railroad builder and politician, was one of the founders of the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads and served as California's governor and then U.S. senator.
Leland Stanford. Much like his future partners, Leland Stanford remade himself in gold rush California as a shopkeeper. In 1852, fed up with lawyering, he left the Midwest to become a...
By Mitchell Leslie. On a bright, balmy morning in June of 1878, a crowd of racing enthusiasts and newspapermen huddled beside the track on the Palo Alto Stock Farm, waiting to see a horse run. Leland Stanford had invited them to his estate and horse-training mecca to witness a photographic first.
Feb 20, 2020 · A new biography from Bay Area journalist Roland De Wolk says Leland Stanford was a ruthless capitalist who cheated taxpayers — and became the godfather of modern tech. How much do you really...
Sep 17, 2019 · September 17, 2019. The compelling origin story of the Stanford museum, university and Silicon Valley. The Melancholy Museum: Love, Death, and Mourning at Stanford highlights the impact of the death of Leland Stanford Jr. By Sandra Feder. “Without the death of Leland Stanford Jr., you don’t have the museum and you don’t have Stanford University.”
A Road Well-Traveled - Facts. Photos: Stanford University Archives. The industrious Leland Stanford wore many hats over his lifetime — lawyer, merchant, chief railroad builder, governor of California, horse breeder, vintner, university founder, and U.S. senator. His lifelong passion, however, was horses.
