In the matter of the estate of Jane L. Stanford, deceased: legal briefs, correspondence, and clippings 1955-1957

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In the matter of the estate of Jane L. Stanford, deceased: legal briefs, correspondence, and clippings 1955-1957

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Collection pertains to claims against Jane L. Stanford's estate from the adopted children of her niece Amy L. Hansen, who was a legatee in Jane Stanford's will, and includes three legal briefs, clippings, and correspondence between James D. Adams of the law firm representing Stanford and Ruth Scibird, curator of the Stanford Collection, about the appeal decision, 1957.

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6656573

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Stanford, Jane Lathrop, 1828-1905

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Jane Eliza Lathrop was born August 25, 1828, the daughter of Dyer Lathrop of Albany, New York. In 1850 she married Leland Stanford, returning with him to California in 1855 where they settled in Sacramento. Leland Stanford later became President of the Southern Pacific Railroad and Governor of California. Their only child, Leland Stanford, Jr., was born in 1868. During a European tour in 1884 he contracted typhoid fever and died in Florence, Italy. In 1885, Jane and Leland Stanford founded the L...

Adams, James D.

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Scibird, Ruth.

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