Named Entity Results, Leland Stanford

Bennett Riley1849 State governors. Name.Term. Peter H. Burnett1849 to 1851 John McDougall1851 to 1852 John Bigler1852 to 1856 J. Neely Johnson1856 to 1858 John B. Weller1858 to 1860 Milton S. Latham1860 John G. Downey1860 to 1862 Leland Stanford1862 to 1863 Frederick F. Low1863 to 1867 Henry H. Haight1867 to 1871 Newton Booth1871 to 1875 Romnaldo Pacheco1875 William Irwin1875 to 1880 George C. Perkins1880 to 1883 George Stoneman1883 to 1887 Washington Bartlett1887 Robert W.to 1869 Cornelius Cole40th to 42d1867 to 1873 Eugene Casserly41st to 43d1869 to 1873 John S. Hager43d1874 Aaron A. Sargent43d to 45th1873 to 1879 Newton Booth44th to 46th1875 to 1881 James T. Farley46th to 48th1879 to 1885 John F. Miller47th to 49th1881 to 1887 Leland Stanford49th to 53d1885 to 1893 George Hearst50th to 51st1887 to 1891 Charles N. Felton52d to 53d1891 to 1893 Stephen M. White53d to 56th1893 to 1899 George C. Perkins53d1893 to —— Thomas R. Bard56th to ——1899

Howard, George Elliot 1849- Educator;, born in Saratoga, N. Y., Oct. 1. 1849; graduated at the University of Nebraska in 1876; Professor of History there in 1879-91; secretary of the Nebraska Historical Society in 1885-91; and became head of the historical department of Leland Stanford, Jr., University in 1891. He is author of An introduction to the constitutional history of the United States, and numerous historical articles in magazines.

Leland Stanford, Junior, University, The most generously endowed educational institution in the world, was opened for the reception of students in 1891. It is situated at Palo Alto, a short distance south of San Francisco, and was founded by SSenator Leland Stanford as a memorial to his son, Leland Stanford, Jr. The property which Senator Stanford set apart for its maintenance was valued at $20,000,000. His widow has since increased the amount of endowment, and in 1899 it represented a toLeland Stanford, Jr. The property which Senator Stanford set apart for its maintenance was valued at $20,000,000. His widow has since increased the amount of endowment, and in 1899 it represented a total of $45,000,000. The buildings were constructed without regard to their cost, and are nowhere surpassed in beauty and fitness. Many of them are of yellow sandstone, and the Moorish style of architecture has been followed in their construction. TSenator Stanford set apart for its maintenance was valued at $20,000,000. His widow has since increased the amount of endowment, and in 1899 it represented a total of $45,000,000. The buildings were constructed without regard to their cost, and are nowhere surpassed in beauty and fitness. Many of them are of yellow sandstone, and the Moorish style of architecture has been followed in their construction. The courses of instruction embrace almost every department of study imaginable, and provide a complete system of education from the kindergarten to the postgraduate course. There are not only schools of agriculture, machine-shops, and laboratories fo

Stanford, Leland 1824-1893 Philanthropist; born in Watervliet, N. Y., March 9, 1824; received a common school education; was admitted to the bar in 1849; and practised in Port Washington, Wis., till 1852, when he removed to California and engaged in gold-mining. In 1856 he settled in San Francisco, where he established a commercial house and acquired a large fortune. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1860; governor of California in 1861; became interested in the cuction of railroads and the development of the agricultural and manufacturing industries of California; was United States Senator in 1885-91; and founded, with his wife, the Leland Stanford, Jr., University, as a memorial of their only son. Senator Stanford was chairman of the committee on public buildings and grounds, and a member of the committees on civil service and retrenchment, education and labor, fisheries, and naval affairs. He died in Palo Alto, Cal., June 20, 1893. The university w

ington, D. C., used by the pension record division of the War Office, falls while nearly 400 government clerks are at work in the building; twenty-one killed, sixty-eight injured......June 9, 1893 Battle-ship Massachusetts launched at Messrs. Cramp & Sons' ship-yards in Philadelphia......June 10, 1893 Viking ship, representing Lief Ericson's Cockstab Find, which left Bergen, Norway, April 30, for the World's Fair at Chicago, reaches New York......June 17, 1893 United States Senator Leland Stanford, ex-governor of California, born 1824, dies at Palo Alto, Cal.......June 20, 1893 Governor Altgeld, of Illinois, pardons Fielden, Schwab, and Neebe, anarchists engaged in the Haymarket riot......June 26, 1893 President Cleveland calls an extra session of Congress to meet Aug. 7......June 30, 1893 Frequent failures among national, State, and private banks......July–September, 1893 Lieutenant Peary leaves New York on his second Greenland expedition......July 2, 1893 Fir