Leland Stanford, the university's founder, as painted by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier in 1881 and now on display at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts | Cantor Center

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.

* Reclaim the Earth, edited by Leonie Caldecott & Stephanie Leland

Winter sports venues are located nearby at Leland High Sierra Snowplay near Strawberry ( snow tubbing ), Long Barn Lodge & Ice Skating Rink, and Dodge Ridge Ski Area near Pinecrest are all along Highway 108, plus the Badger Pass Ski Area in nearby Yosemite Park.

Leland Stanford, Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, 1881, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts | Stanford museum

* Roth, Leland M., McKim, Mead & White, Architects, Harper & Row, Publishers, NY 1983

* Roth, Leland M., A Concise History of American Architecture, Harper & Row, New York, 1980

Based on Henry Ford's design ( except for the engine, designed by Leland & Faulconer ), it was practically identical to the 1903 Ford Model A.

Prominent examples included F. Pratt and A. Whitney ( as mentioned above ); Henry Leland ( who would end up at Cadillac and Lincoln ); Edward Bullard Sr of the Bullard firm ; and, through Pratt & Whitney, Worcester R. Warner and Ambrose Swasey ( of Warner & Swasey ).

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.

An extensive set of curricular offerings is provided through the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs that includes courses in Administration of Justice ( AJ ), Political Science ( POLS ), Public Affairs ( PA ), Military Science ( MSCI ), and Urban Planning & Environmental Policy ( UPEP ).

* Ware & Leland v. Mobile County, 209 U. S. 405 ( 1908 )-- held that contracts for the sales of cotton for future delivery that do not oblige interstate shipments are not subjects of interstate commerce

Mike Post ( born Leland Michael Postil, September 29, 1944, Berkeley, California ) is an American multi-Grammy and Emmy Award winning composer best known for his TV theme songs for such primetime series as Law & Order, NYPD Blue, The Rockford Files, L. A. Law, Quantum Leap, Magnum, P. I.

He has continued writing and composing independently, from his home in Leland, Michigan, recording and releasing his fourth solo effort Lost Planets & Phantom Voices.

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.

* Roth, Leland M., McKim, Mead & White, Architects, Harper & Row Publishers, New York, NY 1983 ISBN 0-8478-0491-7

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.

** Concert for George, by Ray Cooper, Olivia Harrison, Jon Kamen ( video producers ), David Leland ( video director ) & various artists

The group first formed under the moniker " Pimp Cocktail " with founding member Brian Haas as well as Sean Layton, Dove McHargue, Matt Leland, & Kyle Wright.

Leland says the curse is lifted by finding the hen & wreath ( garland ), and throwing the whole lot into running water ; the bewitched is then taken into a church whilst a baptism is being carried out, where they must repeat a certain spell before bathing in holy water.

Cadillac was founded in 1902 by Henry Leland, a master mechanic and entrepreneur, who named the company after his ancestor, Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, the founder of the city of Detroit.

* Henry M. Leland, engineer and automotive entrepreneur, created both the Cadillac and Lincoln brands

With Henry Leland, he developed a self-starter for the Cadillac which won a Dewar Trophy as a result in 1913.

* Henry M. Leland, automotive pioneer and founder of Cadillac and Lincoln brands

Leland created the Cadillac automobile, later bought out by General Motors.

At Cadillac, Leland applied many modern manufacturing principles to the fledgling automotive industry, including the use of interchangeable parts.

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.

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

* Leland, Conley Barrows Général Faidherbe, the Maurel and Prom Company, and French Expansion in Senegal, University of California, Los Angeles, 1974, XXI-t. 1, pp. 1 – 519 ; t. 2, pages 520 – 976, ( thèse )

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.

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 ).

* 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.

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

:* Jane Stanford ( 1828 – 1905 ), widow of Leland Stanford

Jane Lathrop Stanford ( August 25, 1828-February 28, 1905 ) was the co-founder of Stanford University together with her husband, Leland Stanford.

They founded the university in 1891 as a memorial to their only child, Leland Stanford Jr. After her husband's death in 1893, she funded and operated the university almost single-handedly until her death in 1905.

The church was commissioned by Jane Stanford ( 1828 – 1905 ) as a memorial to her husband, Leland Stanford ( 1824 – 93 ).

In 1901, Frank Leland combined his Chicago Unions with the Giants and renamed the team the Chicago Union Giants, which was renamed to the Leland Giants in 1905.