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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.
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.
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
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 Elizabeth Lathrop Stanford (25 de agosto de 1828 - 28 de febrero de 1905) fue una filántropa estadounidense y cofundadora de la Universidad de Stanford en 1885 (inaugurada en 1891), junto con su esposo, Leland Stanford., en memoria de su único hijo, Leland Stanford Jr., quien murió de fiebre tifoidea a los 15 años en 1884.
Named One of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 by the Los Angeles Times. A premier historian penetrates the fog of corruption and cover-up still surrounding the murder of a Stanford University founder to establish who did it, how, and why.
