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Leland Stanford Jr. (May 14, 1868 – March 13, 1884), known as Leland DeWitt Stanford until he was nine, was the only son of American industrialist and politician Leland Stanford and his wife Jane. Following his death from typhoid at age 15, he became the namesake of Stanford University, which is officially called Leland Stanford ...
Leland Stanford, por Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, 1881, Museo Stanford. Stanford y su mujer, Jane, tuvieron un hijo, Leland Stanford Junior, que murió de fiebre tifoidea con quince años, en 1884, cuando la familia estaba de viaje por Italia y también por Suecia.
La Universidad Stanford tomó su nombre del hijo de su fundador, Leland Stanford Jr. (14 de mayo de 1868-13 de marzo de 1884; conocido como Leland DeWitt Stanford hasta los nueve años). 26 Era el único hijo del gobernador de California Leland Stanford y su esposa Jane Stanford.
When railroad magnate and former California Gov. Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford, lost their only child, Leland, Jr., to typhoid in 1884, they decided to build a university as the most fitting memorial, and deeded to it a large fortune that included the 8,180-acre Palo Alto stock farm that became the campus.
It was founded in 1885 by Leland Stanford—a railroad magnate who served as the eighth governor of and then-incumbent senator from California—and his wife, Jane, in memory of their only child, Leland Jr. Stanford has an 8,180-acre (3,310-hectare) campus, among the largest in the nation.
Like many wealthy children of America’s Gilded Age, little Leland Stanford junior was born into a glittering world of silver and servants, pampering and privilege.
The Leland Stanford Junior University was founded in 1885 by Jane and Leland Stanford in memory of their only child, Leland Jr., who died of typhoid fever at 15. After his 1884 death, the Stanfords determined that they would use their wealth to do something for other people’s children.
