Jane Lathrop Stanford papers, 1905.

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Jane Lathrop Stanford papers, 1905.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702912935

Typescript copies of letters, poems, resolutions and other papers expressing grief of the Stanford University community following the death of Mrs. Stanford.

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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, 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...