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May 20, 2022 · Leland Stanford, from left, Jane Stanford and Leland Stanford Jr. Jane outlived both her husband and son and lorded over Stanford University, only to die by poisoning. Author Richard...
Leland Stanford Junior University – still its legal name – opened Oct. 1, 1891. The Stanfords and founding President David Starr Jordan aimed for their new university to be nonsectarian, co-educational and affordable, to produce cultured and useful graduates, and to teach both the traditional liberal arts and the technology and engineering ...
Feb 20, 2020 · If you really are a Stanford student, it is odd that you never noticed that the University is named after his son, Leland Stanford, Jr, who died of typhoid at age 15....
Leland Stanford Jr., only son of Governor and railroad tycoon Leland Stanford Sr. and heiress Jane Lathrop Stanford, died suddenly in 1884, just shy of his 16th birthday. Renowned curators reckoned Leland Jr.’s early death a great loss to “the art-training” of the American people. Was his collecting that remarkable?
Leland Stanford Jr., only son of Governor and railroad tycoon Leland Stanford Sr. and heiress Jane Lathrop Stanford, died suddenly in 1884, just shy of his 16th birthday. The Leland Stanford Junior University (opened 1891) and Museum (opened 1893) were created in memoriam for Leland Jr.
Sep 17, 2019 · Photo of Leland Stanford Jr. (Image credit: University Archives and Special Collections) It is this broad curiosity that is highlighted in the Cantor’s new exhibition, with numerous examples of things that fascinated the 19th-century child, like a toy cannon and a coin trapped in lava.
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...
