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.

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.

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

The Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band Tööbz!

* 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.

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 song is a regular part of the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band's playlist.

Robinson also attended the Leland Stanford Junior University's Graduate School of Business.

" They then founded Leland Stanford Junior University in their son's honor.

The Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band ( LSJUMB ) is the student marching band of Stanford University.

The 1893 Leland Stanford Junior Museum became part of an expanded complex, the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts.

After they returned to the United States, his parents devoted their fortune to a memorial, Leland Stanford Junior University, in his honor.

Although the University is generally referred to as " Stanford University " or " Stanford ," its official name is still " Leland Stanford Junior University ," for example on the university seal.

The Stanford Band always calls itself " the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band " ( LSJUMB ).

A student drinking song refers to the institution as " the Leland Stanford Junior Farm ".

As a jest, students at rival schools occasionally refer to Stanford as a " junior university ", a play on the name " Leland Stanford Junior University.

The Stanford Tree is the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band's mascot and the unofficial mascot of Stanford University.

* Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band

* 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 )

* 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.

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.

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.

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.

Leland Weintraub, the commissioner who moved for the district's creation, noted that " most of the features commonly associated with the American romantic suburb of the mid-19th century ," including " a picturesque site, landscaping and architecture ; connection to the city by accessible transportation and a layout adapted to the topography " are present in the area.

She said that Gardner referred to the Goddess as Airdia or Areda, which she believed was derived from Aradia, the deity that Charles Leland claimed was worshipped by Italian witches.

* Cadbury Castle hill fort, referred to as a location for Camelot by John Leland in 1542.

When John Leland wrote his Itinerary, he referred to this fortress as " Ogor Castelle ".