Jane Lathrop Stanford letter to Mrs. William Harney, circa 1891.

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Jane Lathrop Stanford letter to Mrs. William Harney, circa 1891.

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Letter of condolence from Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford to Mrs. William Harney at the time of her husband's death in 1891. Also includes a typed sheet with information about the letter (told to Dr. Priestley by Mrs. Scott Rountree when she gave the letter to the Bancroft); two newspaper clippings about the death of Colonel Harney (born in 1838, died in 1891, colonel in the California militia, member of the San Francisco Board of Education at the time of his death in a railway accident).

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Harney, William, Mrs.,

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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...

Harney, William, 1838-1891.

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