Stanford University, Board of Trustees, safe deposit box documents 1860-1948

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Stanford University, Board of Trustees, safe deposit box documents 1860-1948

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Assorted documents once kept in a bank safe deposit box including copy of the Founding Grant, 1885; Petition by Leland Stanford Junior University and of individual trustees for the ascertainment of the existence and terms of, and for the determination of the validity and legal effect of grants or other instruments, creating, changing or affecting trusts and estates for the founding, endowment, and maintenance of the Leland Stanford Junior University, 1906; certified copy of minutes of the Board of Trustees contained in Volume One for November 14, 1885 and August 29, 1903 to April 30, 1904; inventory and appraisal of the estate of Leland Stanford, 1893; Organization of the Board of Trustees, Nov. 1, 1901; and U. S. Patent of Esquon Ranch to Samuel Neal (Butte County, Calif.), with plat map, dated April 3, 1860.

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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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Neal, Samuel.

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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...

Stanford University. Board of Trustees

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The Stanford National Board, whose members were elected by the Board of Trustees, met once or twice yearly with the Trustees for a discussion of University problems and policies. From the description of Stanford University, Board of Trustees, records concerning the Stanford National Board, 1923-1927. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 703840671 Leland Stanford Junior University was formally founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Lathrop Stanford in the name of their son. While found...

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Stanford entered into a research project with the National Iranian Radio and Television agency in 1974 to study and recommend a satellite-based communication system for Iran and how to utilize it for Iran's educational radio and television. From the description of Stanford NIRT project records, 1974-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510722 The Leland Stanford Junior University was established in 1885 in memory of Leland Stanford Jr., the only child of Senator and Mrs. ...

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...