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.

On June 19, 1872, under the sponsorship of Leland Stanford, Eadweard Muybridge successfully photographed a horse named " Sallie Gardner " in fast motion using a series of 24 stereoscopic cameras.

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.

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

It is named in honor of their only child, Leland Stanford, Jr., who died in 1884 just before his 16th birthday.

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.

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

The original " inner quad " buildings ( 1887 – 91 ) were designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Francis A. Walker, Charles Allerton Coolidge, and Leland Stanford himself.

When Leland Stanford died in 1893, the continued existence of the university was in jeopardy.

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

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

:* Leland Stanford, Jr. ( 1868 – 1884 ), son of Leland and Jane Stanford

* 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.

1867-1944 ) by Governor Leland Stanford, who was shown her picture by her father.

* Governor Leland Stanford biography at the California State Library

* Leland Stanford, founder of Stanford University, former Governor of California

On September 10, 1863, Leland Stanford, then Governor of California, presented the Corps of Cadets with forty Springfield rifles, Model 1839.

Leland Stanford Jr. ( May 14, 1868 – March 13, 1884 in Florence, Italy ), Leland DeWitt Stanford until age nine, was the only child of Governor Leland Stanford of California and his wife Jane Stanford née Lathrop, and is the namesake of Stanford University, adjacent to Palo Alto, California, United States.

During the American Civil War Pacheco was appointed the rank of brigadier general by Governor Leland Stanford and directed to disarm military companies in the Los Angeles area that were not loyal to the Union.

Some of the guests who visited Bidwell Mansion were President Rutherford B. Hayes, General William T. Sherman, Susan B. Anthony, Frances Willard, Governor Leland Stanford, John Muir, Joseph Dalton Hooker and Asa Gray.

* Awarded to the Detroit Project on April 25, 2007 by Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm and State Representative Gabe Leland

The Southern Pacific then filed and won a lawsuit in 1878 against the settlers, amidst allegations of court bias ( former California Governor Leland Stanford was also president of SP ).

While Annie and John Bidwell resided in the mansion, they were hosts to many prominent figures of their era, including: President Rutherford B. Hayes, General William T. Sherman, Susan B. Anthony, Frances Willard, Governor Leland Stanford, John Muir, and Asa Gray.

It features the Leland Stanford House, a mansion once owned by Leland Stanford, Governor of California from 1862 to 1863, U. S. Senator from 1885 to 1893, railroad tycoon, member of the Big Four and founder of Stanford University.

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.

In 2007 State Senator Leland Yee ( California's Eighth District ) authored legislation sponsored by the Broadmoor Police Department to recognize Broadmoor as a municipal or city police department.

* Monroe Leland Hayward — United States Senator from Nebraska and grandfather of Leland Hayward

* Leland Yee: California State Senator.

* Leland Yee, State Senator of California

Her opposition along with the opposition of Senator Leland Yee led the Times to predict that California's widely touted healthcare bill – widely but inaccurately called " universal " coverage – would be effectively killed.

Throughout this era, significant players were principally various committee chairmen: Congressmen Leland, Hall, Foley, Leon Panetta, and de la Garza and Senator Patrick Leahy.

In the spring of 2008, State Senator Leland Yee advanced legislation to allow Daly City to purchase the Cow Palace from California Department of Food and Agriculture ’ s Division of Fairs and Expositions in order to develop housing, basic amenities, and possibly a school for the surrounding area.

" California State Senator Leland Yee also criticized Limbaugh for his remarks: " His classless act is an insult to over 3, 000 years of cultural history, and is a slap in the face to the millions of Chinese Americans who have struggled in this country and to a people who constitute one-quarter of the world's population.

After losing to John G. Downey in the first instance and Leland Stanford in the second, Conness was chosen by the Legislature to fill the full term of US Senator from California for the term beginning in 1863.

Leland Yee (, born November 20, 1948 ) is a California State Senator in District 8 which represents the western half of San Francisco and most of San Mateo County.

In what may be a described as a cynical analogy with a long obsolete practice of foot binding is echoed by Hawaii's former first lady Vicky Cayetano who states that: " shark fin soup is about as cultural as bound feet ", however, Senator Leland Yee, while voicing his concern about the illegal shark finning trade, argued that the mentality behind AB376 constitutes " the wrong approach and an unfair attack on Asian culture and cuisine ... rather than launch just another attack on Asian American culture, the proponents of the ( blanket ) ban on shark fin soup should work with us to strengthen conservation efforts ".

** Leland Yee, California State Senator

* 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 )

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 )