Jane Stanford
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Jane Elizabeth Lathrop Stanford was an American philanthropist and co-founder in 1885 of Stanford University with her husband Leland Stanford, in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who d
Portrait of Jane Stanford
Portrait of Leland and Jane Stanford in 1850
Headline of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin on 1 March 1905, reporting Stanford's death.
Leland Stanford Jr.
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Leland Stanford Jr. was the only child of American industrialist and politician Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane. Following his death from typhoid at age 15, Stanford became the namesake of Stanford
Jane Stanford
…American philanthropist and co-founder in 1885 of Stanford University (opened 1891) with her husband Leland Stanford, in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who died of typhoid fever in 1884 at age 15. After her husband's death in 1893, Jane Stanford funded and operated the university almost single-handedly…
Leland Stanford in 1872
Stanford's death mask on display at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts