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Jane Elizabeth Lathrop Stanford (August 25, 1828 – February 28, 1905) was an American philanthropist and co-founder of Stanford University in 1885 (opened 1891), along with her husband, Leland Stanford, in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who died of typhoid fever at age 15 in 1884.
20 de may. de 2022 · How a scholar unearthed the cyanide love triangle that toppled a California arts colony. Oct. 19, 2021. One of the biggest liars was Jane Stanford herself. She would savagely undercut a rival,...
- Mary Ann Gwinn
17 de may. de 2022 · Fearful that someone was trying to murder her, Jane Stanford, a 76-year-old widow, sailed for Honolulu several weeks later with two trusted employees. At the Moana Hotel, on the night of Feb....
- Meryl Gordon
It concerns the mysterious death of the University’s co-founder, Jane Stanford. Though most history books attribute Mrs. Stanford’s death at 76 to heart failure, a closer look at the documents and drama surrounding her demise reveals a quite different picture.
22 de jun. de 2023 · Someone murdered Jane Stanford, the cofounder of Stanford University, on Tuesday, February 28, 1905, putting a precisely calibrated dose of pure strychnine in her bicarbonate of soda. The murderer had made an earlier attempt, introducing rat poison into Stanford’s nightstand bottle of Poland Spring water.
Jane Stanford, the wife of Leland Stanford and one of the richest women in California, was the co-founder of Leland Stanford Jr. University, which was a monument to their dead son. In 1905 she ingested strychnine twice within six weeks.
30 de may. de 2022 · Authorities who investigated Jane Stanford’s mysterious death said the wealthy widow had no enemies. A new book finds that she had many. By Maia Silber. May 30, 2022. Stanford’s sanitized...
