Leland Stanford letter to Butler Ives 1869

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Leland Stanford letter to Butler Ives 1869

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Handwritten letter, January 25, 1869, requesting more men at work "on our line at the point where the U.P. line strikes it east of Ogden," along with a photoprint copy of a stereocard showing Butler Ives on horseback in the mountains.

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Stanford, Leland, 1824-1893

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Lawyer born in Albany, New York but moved to California where he became active in the Republican Party, running for governor and losing in 1860. Later president of the Union Pacific Railroad and founder of Stanford University. From the description of Letter, March 14, 1861. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55662301 Leland Stanford was born March 9, 1824 in Waltervliet Township, New York. He was admitted to the practice of law in 1848 and married Ja...

Central Pacific Railroad.

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Ives, Butler, 1830-1872.

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