Leland Stanford letters : Sacramento, Calif., to Wm. P. Jones, San Quentin, Marin County and Sutter Creek, Amador County, Calif. : ALS (negative photocopies), 1860-1863.

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Leland Stanford letters : Sacramento, Calif., to Wm. P. Jones, San Quentin, Marin County and Sutter Creek, Amador County, Calif. : ALS (negative photocopies), 1860-1863.

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Letters regarding Republican state and national conventions, a donation solicited by Governor Stanford from W.E. Brown, and political organizing in Amador County.

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Republican Party (Calif.)

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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...

Jones, William P. (William Patterson)

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William Patterson Jones, co-founder of the Northwestern Female College, was born in Philadelphia on April 23, 1831. The school opened in October, 1855, before the building was complete and before the school was officially chartered; classes were first held in rooms over Colvin's general store on Davis Street. After the merger of the Northwestern Female College with the Evanston College for Ladies, Jones engaged in a variety of pursuits, including continued endorsements of educationa...