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

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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.

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.

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.