In 1935, Stanford University published Berner’s story called “Mrs. Leland Stanford: An Intimate Account.” The book is riddled with inaccuracies, ...

a university museum; the concrete structure built by mrs. leland stanford. the first of its kind ever erect- ed in any country -- a mother's memorial to her son -- news and gossip from other ...

There was a great deal of gossip in San Francisco when Mrs. Jane Stanford suddenly left her Nob Hill mansion for Hawaii on February 15, 1905. Ill health was one theory. Low spirits another. But ...

Leland and Jane Stanford had one son, Leland Jr., but he never attended Harvard. He died at the age of 15 on a family trip to Italy, but from typhoid fever, not from an accident.

"Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford got up and walked away, traveling to Palo Alto, California where they established the university that bears their name, Stanford University, a memorial to a son that ...

On the evening of Jan. 14, 1905, Mrs. Leland Stanford was at home in her 50-room San Francisco mansion when she took a sip of the bottled water presumably left at her bedside by a member of her staff.

In “Mrs. Leland Stanford: An Intimate Account” (1935), Berner described her “prominent and much loved” employer as someone who shied away from public attention. The daughter of a wealthy ...

A new biography from Bay Area journalist Roland De Wolk says Leland Stanford was a ruthless capitalist who cheated taxpayers -- and became the godfather of modern tech.

The gesture was a tribute to their only son, Leland Jr., who died of typhoid fever at age 15. After Leland Sr. died in 1893, Stanford University was Jane’s only love.

W hen Leland and Jane Stanford bought a Santa Clara County horse farm in 1876, they were upholding an aristocratic tradition of placid living away from the city’s multitudes.

Much like his future partners, Leland Stanford remade himself in gold rush California as a shopkeeper. In 1852, fed up with lawyering, he left the Midwest to become a partner in a wholesale ...