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	Leland Stanford
		Leland Stanford was born on March 9, 1824 in Watervliet Township near Albany, New York.
		Stanford was elected Justice of the Peace and served in that capacity until May 1855 when he sold his interest in the store and returned to Albany to be with his wife following the death of her father.
		Stanford was one of the founders in the formation of the Republican Party in Sacramento in 1856.
	www.inn-california.com /Articles/biographic/lelandstanford.html (856 words)

	Stanford University History: Founding
		Stanford $10,000 per month allowance from proceeds of the estate, approximately what she was accustomed to spending on the maintenance of her several households.
		Stanford's tribute to her husband, the church was erected as the centerpiece of the Inner Quad.
		Stanford relinquished to the university trustees control over the university's affairs that were given to her, the surviving founder, in the Grant of Endowment.
	www.stanford.edu /home/stanford/history/begin.html (3726 words)

	Leland Stanford
		Leland Stanford (March 9, 1824 - 1893), was born in Watervliet, New York, New York.
		Stanford led the California legislature to pass taxes and unfair regulations which specifically targeted Chinese.
		With his wife Jane, Stanford founded Stanford University as a memorial for their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who died of typhoid as a teenager during a trip to Europe.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/le/Leland_Stanford.html (151 words)

	PBS - THE WEST - Leland Stanford
		Stanford was finally elected governor in 1861, when the Civil War split the Democratic vote, and he played a part in keeping California loyal to the Union.
		With Mark Hopkins, Collis Huntington and Charles Crocker, Stanford was one of the "Big Four" planning to build the eastbound section of the transcontinental railroad, and his contribution to the partnership was to come in the form of political influence.
		As governor, Stanford kept this pledge, despite his responsibilities to the public, by helping to secure massive state investment and land grants for the railroad project.
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/people/s_z/stanford.htm (451 words)

	Beyond Capitalism: Leland Stanford’s Forgotten Vision
		Stanford’s analysis of the basic “principle of cooperation” is interesting because it conceptualizes employment as a service that the worker pays for, in the form of profits kept by the employer, and that providing this service for themselves is the key to workers being able to keep the profits of their labor.
		Leland Stanford believed in the Enlightenment thesis that new ideas had the power to improve the society, and did not subscribe to the view that social change was purely an outcome of “class struggle”.
		Stanford’s intention, on the other hand—that the laboring classes be taught the principles of cooperation in order to gain ownership of their workplaces—is of a radical nature wholly beyond the current level of debate in the United States, from the right or from the left.
	dynamics.org /~altenber/PAPERS/BCLSFV (10078 words)

	The Stanford Label
		Stanford was convinced that the climate at Vina, just north of Sacramento, would yield the finest grapes on earth, and he eventually cultivated a 2,575-acre vineyard, the largest in the world.
		But Leland had misjudged Vina’s climate–the valley’s rich soil and 105-degree summer afternoons didn’t suit any of the dozens of grape varieties he tried, and the would-be wine king was forced to use much of his crop for brandy.
		Stanford, a temperance advocate herself, told critics that all Vina’s brandy–1.7 million gallons in 1890–was sold for “medicinal purposes.” Ads proclaiming “Senator Leland Stanford’s grape brandy–it’s pure, that’s sure!” suggest otherwise.
	www.stanfordalumni.org /news/magazine/1998/sepoct/articles/stanford_label.html (435 words)

	Facts About the Leland Stanford Mansion - 1940
		Stanford looks radiant, and feels happy at the idea that this, her grand reception, is a grand success in every sense of the word.
		Stanford was very much surprised, for she had planned nothing of the sort and also had not seen the platter before.
		Stanford driving with her mother and sister, Miss Lathrop, and said that when the little boy was taken along, he looked like a baby prince, he was so bedecked and so cherished, as if he were more than an ordinary child.
	www.sfmuseum.org /hist5/callib.html (4690 words)

	Amasa Leland Stanford (1824-1893)
		Stanford served as president of Southern Pacific Railroad from 1885 to 1890, and while continuing to serve as the head of the Central Pacific Railroad until his death in 1893.
		The Stanfords also owned a stately mansion in Sacramento, California (this was the birthplace of their only son, and now a house museum used for California state social occasions), as well as a home in San Francisco's Nob Hill district.
		Leland Stanford died at home in Palo Alto, California and is buried in the Stanford family mausoleum on the Stanford campus.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /chron/civilwarnotes/stanford.html (665 words)

	Leland Stanford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stanford's ancestors settled in the Mohawk Valley of New York around 1720.
		Stanford encouraged the California legislature to pass taxes and unfair regulations which specifically targeted Chinese.
		Stanford, a member of the Republican Party, was politically active.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leland_Stanford (874 words)

	Stanford Magazine: May/June 2001: Feature Story: The Man Who Stopped Time
		Stanford had taken a stand in a popular dispute of the day: whether all four legs of a horse come off the ground at any point in a trot or gallop.
		Stanford's fervor for horse racing developed after the stress of completing the transcontinental railroad (in 1869) nearly destroyed his health, notes biographer George Clark in Leland Stanford (Stanford University Press, 1931).
		Stanford seemed to have plenty of time, patience and money--a good thing, since progress was slow and the overall project wound up costing some $50,000.
	www.stanfordalumni.org /news/magazine/2001/mayjun/features/muybridge.html (3561 words)

	Stanford Magazine: May/June 2001: Feature Story: The Man Who Stopped Time
		Stanford had taken a stand in a popular dispute of the day: whether all four legs of a horse come off the ground at any point in a trot or gallop.
		Stanford's fervor for horse racing developed after the stress of completing the transcontinental railroad (in 1869) nearly destroyed his health, notes biographer George Clark in Leland Stanford (Stanford University Press, 1931).
		Stanford seemed to have plenty of time, patience and money--a good thing, since progress was slow and the overall project wound up costing some $50,000.
	stanfordalumni.org /news/magazine/2001/mayjun/features/muybridge.html (3561 words)

	Leland Stanford - dKosopedia
		Born in 1824, Leland Stanford became the most active member of a small group organizing the Republican Party in California and was the party candidate for state treasurer in 1857, for governor in 1859 and 1861.
		Stanford's role as one of the "big four" of the Central Pacific Railroad brought him a vast fortune.
		His wife Jane Lathrop Stanford; their only son died young, and Stanford University -- formally Leland Stanford Junior Memorial University --is named for him.
	www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Leland_Stanford (147 words)

	Leland Stanford
		Leland Stanford (March 9, 1824 - June 21, 1893), was born in Watervliet, New York.
		Stanford was a lawyer, but more sucessful as a businessman and made his money from railroad development.
		He is buried in the Stanford family mausoleum on the Stanford campus.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/l/le/leland_stanford.html (220 words)

	BBC - History - Leland Stanford (1824-1893) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Stanford was born in 1824 on his family's farm in Watervliet, near Albany, New York State.
		In 1884, on a trip to Europe, his son Leland Stanford Jr, contracted typhoid fever and died at the age of 15.
		It prompted Stanford to found and endow a university in his son's memory, reputedly saying ' The children of California shall be our children.' Stanford University, near Palo Alto, to the south of San Francisco, opened in 1891 and is now one of the US' elite universities.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/stanford_leland.shtml (514 words)

	Leland Stanford - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Stanford, Leland, full name Amasa Leland Stanford (1824-1893), American statesman, capitalist, and patron of education, born in Watervliet, New...
		Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University), private, coeducational institution of higher education in Stanford, California,...
		Leland, Charles Godfrey (1824-1903), American poet, humorist, and journalist, best known for his Hans Breitmann’s Ballads, a cycle of poems...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Leland_Stanford.html (91 words)

	Cantor Arts Center - The Stanford Family Collection
		Leland Stanford, railroad baron, Civil War governor, and, later, U.S. Senator, and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford, were among California's most influential citizens with mansions in both Sacramento and San Francisco.
		The Leland Stanford Junior Museum, built in 1894, was inspired by their son’s interests in antiquities and anthropological artifacts.
		Leland Jr.’s original collection of Greek and Roman glassware and Egyptian, Asian, and North American artifacts were augmented by the Stanfords' interest in American and European fine arts.
	museum.stanford.edu /view/stanford_family.html (256 words)

	Leland Stanford Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		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, born on March 9, 1824, in Watervliet, N.Y., was one of eight children of a prosperous farmer who also dabbled in various local bridge and road contracts.
		Stanford endowed a new institution, the Leland Stanford Junior University, in 1885 in memory of his son, who had died at the age of 15.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/leland-stanford (556 words)

	Governor Leland Stanford of California (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A New Yorker by birth, California's eighth governor was born Amasa Leland Stanford in 1824.
		Most notably, Stanford was one of the "Big Four" (the other three being Huntington, Hopkins and Crocker) who built the transcontinental railroad which connected the Eastern United States to the West.
		Stanford was elected to the office of Governor as a Republican and as Governor he made major constitutional changes, sponsored legislative reforms, backed the conservation of forests, and cut the state debt in half.
	www.governor.ca.gov /govsite/govsgallery/h/biography/governor_8.html (170 words)

	Leland Stanford Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Leland Stanford was born in 1824, at Watervliet, N.Y. Most renowned for the fact that in 1891, Leland his wife founded "Leland Stanford Junior University", (now Stanford University).
		Stanford was one of the founders of the Central Pacific Railroad.
		From 1861 to 1863, Stanford served as Governor of California.
	www.paralumun.com /busstanford.htm (82 words)

	Leland Stanford biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the construction of the road he personally undertook the responsibility and supervision of that part of the road crossing the ridge of the Sierra Nevada, Mountains, and as a result 530 miles of mountain road were constructed in 293 days.
		Stanford was elected United States Senator in 1884 and in 1890.
		His wife, JANE LELAND STANFORD (18251905), was born at Albany, N. Y., and was married in 1850 to Mr.
	www.dromo.info /stanfordbio.htm (212 words)

	The Stanford Gang
		Stanford sufficiently so that after eighteen years of marriage, she bore a son, Leland Jr., in whose memory Stanford University was established by his father." The nature of this miraculous counseling is not specified.
		Stanford and Doctor Jordan had been selected by them to put the institution into operation, Senator Stanford asked Doctor Jordan to look into the qualifications of one man and only one, for a position on the faculty of the university that was to be.
		Stanford president David Starr Jordan originated the notion of 'race and blood' in his 1902 racial epistle 'Blood of a Nation,' in which the university scholar declared that human qualities and conditions such as talent and poverty were passed through the blood." (The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics.
	www.smokershistory.com /Stanford.htm (2963 words)

	Leland Stanford
		Stanford made his entrance into public life as a delegate to the Chicago convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln to the presidency.
		Stanford has given the state of California $20, -000,000 to be used in founding at Pale Alto a university whose curriculum shall not only include the usual collegiate studies, but comprise instruction in telegraphy, type-setting, type-writing, journalism, book-keeping, farming, civil engineering, and other practical branches of education.
		Stanford's estate at Vina, Tehama County, California, which is said to be the largest vineyard in the world.
	famousamericans.net /lelandstanford (549 words)

	Leland Stanford Mansion Foundation
		The Mansion was the birthplace of Leland Stanford, Jr.,namesake of Stanford University.
		Governor Stanford commissioned the photographer Edward Muybridge to document not only the interior of the Mansion, but also the movement of his race horses that led to more humane training techniques, and spawned the motion picture industry.
		California First Lady Jane Stanford donated the Mansion fully furnished and with a small endowment to the Bishop of Sacramento to serve as a home for friendless children in memory of her son.
	www.stanfordmansionfoundation.org /thefuture.php (548 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Founding of Stanford University
		Leland Stanford decided to found their own university after being rebuffed in an attempt to donate a building to Harvard.
		Leland Stanford walked away, traveling to Palo Alto, California, where they established the University that bears their name, a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer cared about.
		The Stanfords did found their university (modelled after Cornell and located on the grounds of their horse-trotting farm) in memory of their son (hence the school's official name of "Leland Stanford Junior University"), but not because they were rudely rebuffed by Harvard's president — because it was what they had intended all
	www.snopes.com /glurge/stanford.asp (862 words)

	Stanford Mansion
		The Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park, a unit of the California Department of Parks and Recreation, offers many opportunities for those seeking to offer their time and experience as volunteers to this historic park.
		He or she greets visitors and explains the history of the Leland Stanford Mansion, its family, and the roles of the Sisters of Mercy/Sisters of Social Services while stationed at one of the Mansion’s reproduction historic rooms, sometimes while wearing a period costume (optional).
		This docent explains the evolution of the Stanford Mansion—from its original construction (Fogus years) to the changes and growth of the home under the Stanfords and the Mansion’s service to the community under the Sisters of Mercy/Sisters of Social Services—to its present-day use as a living museum and protocol events center.
	www.stanfordmansion.org /volunteer.html (835 words)

	All About the Stanford University and the Stanford Campus - www.Stanford-b.com
		The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university located approximately 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco in an unincorporated part of Santa Clara County.
		While at Stanford, he led a series of experiments that used high-energy electrons and photons to examine the structure and behavior of the proton.
		Stanford hosts programs and a teaching hospital in addition to various community outreach and volunteer initiatives.
	www.stanford-b.com (1958 words)

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