Leland Stanford papers, 1840-1896

Abstract/Contents

Abstract: Correspondence, telegrams; business, legal, financial, and official papers; speeches, journals, and newsclippings; and other materials relating to the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad, Stanford's political career, business and financial interests, and the founding and construction of Stanford University.

Associated with	Stanford, Leland, 1824-1893

Subject	Cesnola, Luigi Palma di, 1832-1904
Subject	Coolidge, Charles Allerton, 1858-1936
Subject	Gordan, George
Subject	Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901
Subject	Hopkins, Mark
Subject	Huntington, Collis Potter, 1821-1900
Subject	Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931
Subject	Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904
Subject	Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903
Subject	Nash, Herbert C
Subject	Sawyer, Lorenzo
Subject	Sloss, Leon
Subject	Stanford, Josiah W, 1864-1937
Subject	Stanford, Leland, 1824-1893
Subject	White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918
Subject	Vrooman, Henry
Subject	Walker, Francis Amasa, 1840-1897
Subject	Central Pacific Railroad Company.
Subject	Goodrich Quarries.
Subject	Shepley, Rutan, & Coolidge, Architects.
Subject	Southern Pacific Company.
Subject	Warm Springs Ranch (Calif.)
Subject	Universities and colleges > Administration
Subject	Railroads > Management
Subject	Vina Ranch (Calif.)
Subject	Lawyers
Subject	Statesmen
Genre	Clippings.
Genre	Contracts.
Genre	Eulogies.
Genre	Journals (notebooks)
Genre	Poems.
Genre	Speeches.
Genre	Wills.

Biographical/Historical	Leland Stanford was born March 9, 1824 in Waltervliet Township, New York. He was admitted to the practice of law in 1848 and married Jane Lathrop in 1850. In 1852 Stanford moved to California where he first worked as a storekeeper in Mother Lode mining camps and later became a successful Sacramento businessman. Stanford was a leader in organizing the Republican party in California and was elected governor in 1861 at the age of 37. Early in the 1860s Stanford joined with three other Sacramento merchants--Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins, and Collis P. Huntington--in the building of the Central Pacific Railroad. In 1884, Leland and Jane founded Leland Stanford Jr. University in memory of their son. Stanford died June 21, 1893 during his second term as United States Senator.
Ownership	Gifts of Jane Lathrop Stanford, Thomas Welton Stanford, David Starr Jordan, Helen Stanford Canfield, David H. Canfield, and others; also includes purchases.
Location	Location Finding aid
LCCN	ms 67002103
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/sk800yt7636
Location	Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford Univ. Libraries, Stanford, CA 94305

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