Leland Stanford
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Amasa Leland Stanford was an American attorney, industrialist, philanthropist, and Republican Party politician from Watervliet, New York. He served as the eighth governor of California from 1862 to 18
Stanford in 1890
Pacific Railroad Bond, City, and County of San Francisco, 1865
Leland Stanford and the officers of the CPRR in 1870
Muybridge's The Horse in Motion, 1878
Stanford University
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Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Lela
Leland Stanford
…California from 1862 to 1863 and represented the state in the United States Senate from 1885 until his death in 1893. Stanford and his wife Jane founded Stanford University, named after their late son. Stanford became a successful merchant and wholesaler after migrating to California in 1852 during the gold rush; he built…
Campus statue of the Stanfords
Center of the campus in 1891
Ichthyologist and founding president of Stanford, David Starr Jordan
William Shockley, Stanford professor, Nobel laureate in physics, "Father of Silicon Valley"