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Call Number: SC0033A
Creator:
Stanford, Leland, 1824-1893.
Creator:
Stanford, Leland,, 1824-1893.
Title: Leland Stanford papers
Dates: 1841-1897
Physical Description:
5 Linear feet
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives.
Stanford University Libraries.
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Custodial History
Gifts of Jane Lathrop Stanford, Thomas Welton Stanford, David Starr Jordan, Helen Stanford Canfield, David H. Canfield, and
others; also includes purchases.
The materials are open for research.
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University
Archives.
[Identification of item] Leland Stanford Papers (SC0033A). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
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.
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.
Central Pacific Railroad Company..
Cesnola, Luigi Palma di,, 1832-1904.
Coolidge, Charles Allerton,, 1858-1936.
Goodrich Quarries..
Gordan, George.
Harrison, Benjamin,, 1833-1901.
Hopkins, Mark.
Huntington, Collis Potter,, 1821-1900.
Jordan, David Starr,, 1851-1931.
Muybridge, Eadweard,, 1830-1904.
Nash, Herbert C.
Olmsted, Frederick Law,, 1822-1903.
Sawyer, Lorenzo.
Shepley, Rutan, & Coolidge, Architects..
Sloss, Leon.
Southern Pacific Company..
Stanford, Josiah W.,, 1864-1937.
Stanford, Leland,, 1824-1893.
Vrooman, Henry.
Walker, Francis Amasa,, 1840-1897.
Warm Springs Ranch (Calif.).
White, Andrew Dickson,, 1832-1918.
Railroads--Management.
Universities and colleges--Administration.
Vina Ranch (Calif.)