* Nicolae-Şerban Tanaşoca, " Aperçus of the History of Balkan Romanity ", in Răzvan Theodorescu, Leland Conley Barrows ( eds.

* 1920 – Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.

With the intent of liquidating the firm's assets, Ford's financial backers William Murphy and Lemuel Bowen called in engineer Henry M. Leland of Leland & Faulconer Manufacturing Company to appraise the plant and equipment before selling them.

Leland & Faulconer Manufacturing and the Cadillac Automobile Company merged in 1905.

In 1911, Charles F. Kettering, with Henry M. Leland, of Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company ( DELCO ) invented and filed for the first electric starter in America.

He applied this expertise to the nascent motor industry as early as 1870 as a principal in the machine shop Leland & Faulconer, and later was a supplier of engines to Ransom E. Olds's Olds Motor Vehicle Company, later to be known as Oldsmobile.

In 1902, William Murphy and his partners at the Henry Ford Company hired Leland to appraise the company's factory and tooling prior to liquidation.

The four plaintiffs were the Nuevo Water Company, the Hemet Packing Company ( owners of a ranch in Lakview ), the Centinela Ranch near San Jacinto, and Leland Houk, who had a ranch southwest of Hemet.

Lopez finally achieved critical and popular success as a replacement in two shows, Stephen Sondheim's Company ( 1970 ), followed by the 1972 hit Pippin in 1974 ( taking over the role of Fastrada from original performer Leland Palmer ).

Lawrence then recruited Leland Hazard, an attorney for Pittsburgh Paint & Glass Company who also supported the idea of public television, to help get the station off the ground.

* June 22 – Robert S. Lovett succeeds Leland Stanford as the president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad, after Stanford's death.

The first CEJ gauge block set in America was sold to Henry M. Leland at the Cadillac Automobile Company around 1908.

In 1909, Henry Leland of the Cadillac Company ordered 5, 000 ignition sets and Deeds and Kettering formed the Dayton Engineering Laboratories company, Delco.

In 1882, Leland Stanford and associates bought the Market Street Railroad Company and converted its lines to cable haulage.

* Guy Leland, French anti-Soviet underground poet

The origin of the term is unknown but it was popularized by Sky & Telescope magazine's " Deep-Sky Wonders " column, which premiered in their first edition in 1941, created by Leland S. Copeland, written for the majority of its run by Walter Scott Houston, and currently penned by Sue French.

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is an American private research university located in Stanford, California on an campus near Palo Alto.

* Leland Stanford ( 1824 – 1893 ), American businessman, politician, founder of Stanford University

* Leland Stanford, Jr. died of typhoid in 1884 ; his parents founded Stanford University in his memory.

* March 13 – Leland Stanford, Jr., in memory of whom Stanford University was founded ( b. 1868 ).

Huntington changed Judah's strategy of finding several investors and instead sought to raise the money from three partners: Mark Hopkins, his business partner ; James Bailey, a jeweler ; Leland Stanford, a grocer, future governor of California, and founder of Stanford University ; and Charles Crocker, a dry-goods merchant and eventual owner of Crocker Banks.

The Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band Tööbz!

Washington Duke at Duke University, Ezra Cornell at Cornell University, Johns Hopkins at Johns Hopkins University, Leland Stanford at Stanford University, and Cornelius Vanderbilt at Vanderbilt University are several notable examples of Andrew Carnegie's gospel of wealth mentality and Carnegie Mellon University is one such result.

* Jean-Luc Marion translated by Jeffrey L. Kosky, " Being Given: Toward a Phenomenology of Giveness ", Stanford University Press, 2002 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, ( cloth: alk.

Born to a Norwegian-American Lutheran farming family in Leland, Iowa, Branstad received his undergraduate degree from the University of Iowa and his law degree from Drake University Law School.

* Johnie Cooks, former college and professional football player at Mississippi State University and the NFL, is from Leland.

Amasa Leland Stanford ( March 9, 1824 – June 21, 1893 ) was an American tycoon, industrialist, robber baron, politician and founder of Stanford University.

The Memorial Church at Stanford University is dedicated to the memory of Leland Stanford.

With his wife Jane, Stanford founded Leland Stanford Junior University as a memorial for their only child, Leland Stanford, Jr., who died as a teenager of typhoid fever in Florence, Italy, in 1884 while on a trip to Europe.

The University was established by the March 9, 1885, Endowment Act of the California Assembly and Senate, and the Grant of Endowment from Leland and Jane Stanford signed at the first meeting of the Board of Trustees on November 14, 1885.

The book contains photographs of Gregory performing at the Village Gate ; him and his brother ( 1942 ); his mother, Lucille ; Gregory as a drummer at Southern Illinois University ( 1953 ); as an SIU sprinter and Outstanding Athlete of the Year ( 1953 ); with coach Leland Lingle ( 1954 ); with Sammy Davis, Jr. at Roberts Show Club, Chicago ( 1959 ); in a jail cell in Chicago ; performing at the Hungry i, San Francisco ( 1963, shortly before the murder of Medgar Evars ); at a voter registration rally, Greenwood, Mississippi ( April 1963 ), among others.

It was financed and built through " The Big Four " ( who called themselves " The Associates "): Sacramento, California businessmen Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington, Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins.

Leland Stanford, Governor and Senator of California and leading railroad tycoon, and his wife Jane Lathrop Stanford founded the university in 1891 in honor of their son, Leland Stanford, Jr., who died of typhoid two months before his 16th birthday.

Stanford was founded by Leland Stanford, a railroad magnate, United States Senator, and former California governor, and his wife, Jane Stanford.

His parents decided to dedicate a university to their only son, and Leland Stanford told his wife, " The children of California shall be our children.

* June 21 – Amasa Leland Stanford, Governor of California ( b. 1824 )

* January 10 – John Gately Downey, 7th Governor of California, is succeeded by Amasa Leland Stanford.

* March 9 – Amasa Leland Stanford, Governor of California ( d. 1893 )

On January 8, 1863, Governor Leland Stanford ceremoniously broke ground in Sacramento, California, to begin construction of the Central Pacific Railroad.

In 1872, the former governor of California Leland Stanford, a businessman and race-horse owner, hired Muybridge for some photographic studies.

Jane Elizabeth Lathrop Stanford, wife of Leland Stanford, governor and U. S. Senator from California, though she was not a Roman Catholic herself, had a granite monument erected to honor Father Serra at Monterey.

Now the Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park, the house museum is also used for California state social occasions.

Long suffering from locomotor ataxia, Leland Stanford died of heart failure at home in Palo Alto, California on June 21, 1893.

* Governor Leland Stanford biography at the California State Library

* Penny Postcards: Leland Stanford's store: Michigan Bluff, California

* Leland Yee: California State Senator.

Leland S. Andrews also flew an American Airlines Airplane Development Vultee, powered by a Wright Cyclone engine, non-stop from Los Angeles, California, to FBF in 11: 34: 16 hours ( beat Doolittle by almost a half-hour ) and established a new transcontinental non-stop record for a passenger transport airplane.

After the death of their only son Leland Stanford, Jr., in 1884 while on a trip in Italy, the elder Leland turned to his wife and said " The children of California shall be our children.

Upon his return to Berkeley, he made plans for building the California Digital Computer ( CALDIC ) with Paul Morton and Leland Cunningham.

* Leland High School ( San Jose, California )