
Amasa Leland Stanford (March 9, 1824–June 21, 1893) was an United States business tycoon, politician and founder of Stanford University. He was born in Watervliet, New York, one of eight children of Josiah and Elizabeth Phillips Stanford. Stanford's ancestors settled in the Mohawk Valley of New York around 1720. He attended Clinton Liberal Institute, in Clinton, New York, and studied law at Cazenovia Seminary in Cazenovia, New York and later in Albany, New York. He was admitted to the bar in 1848, and then moved to Port Washington, Wisconsin. He married Jane Stanford in Albany on September 30, 1850. In 1852, having lost his law library and other property by fire, he moved to California and began mining for gold at Michigan Bluff, California in Placer County, California. He subsequently went into in business with his three brothers, who had preceded him to the Pacific coast. During this time he worked with his brothers as keeper of a general store for miners, served as a Justice of the Peace and helped organize the Sacramento Library Association, which later became the Sacramento Public Library. In 1856 he moved to San Francisco and engaged in mercantile pursuits on a large scale. He was a delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention. As one of The Big Four, he cofounded and was made president of the Central Pacific Railroad company in 1861. As president of the Central Pacific, he superintended its construction over the mountains, building 530 miles in 293 days. As head of the railroad company which built the First Transcontinental Railroad (North America) line over the Sierra Nevada (US), Stanford hammered in the famous golden spike on May 10, 1869. In 1872 Stanford commissioned Eadweard Muybridge to use newly invented photographic technology to establish whether galloping horses ever lift all four hooves off the ground. (The verdict, by the way, was that horses ''do'' lift all four hooves off the ground.) This project, which illustrated motion through a series of still images viewed together, was a forerunner of motion picture technology. Stanford served as president of Southern Pacific Railroad from 1885 to 1890, and while continuing to serve as the head of the Central Pacific Railroad until his death in 1893. As a railroad developer, Stanford encouraged China immigration to find workers for the railroad construction. However, when jobs were scarce, Stanford made them a scapegoat. Stanford encouraged the California legislature to pass taxes and unfair regulations which specifically targeted Chinese. Stanford, a member of the United States Republican Party, was politically active. He was the eighth List of California Governors, serving from December, 1861 to December, 1863. During his gubernatorial tenure, he cut the state's debt in half, and advocated for the conservation of forests. He also oversaw the establishment of the state normal school in San Francisco, later to become San José State University. Following Stanford's service, the term for governorship changed from two years to four years, in line with legislation passed during his time in office. He later served slightly more than one term in the United States Senate, from 1885 until his death in 1893 at age 69. He served for four years as Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. He also owned the great Vina farm of 55,000 acres (220 km²) in Tehama County, California, containing what was then the largest vineyard in the world at 13,400 acres (54 km²), the Gridley tract of 22,000 acres (90 km²) in Butte County, California and the Palo Alto Stock Farm, which was the home of his famous thoroughbred racers, Electioneer, Anon, Sunol, Palo Alto and Advertiser. The Palo Alto breeding farm gave Stanford University its nickname of ''The Farm''. The Stanfords also owned a stately mansion in Sacramento, California (this was the birthplace of their only son, and now a house museum used for California state social occasions), as well as a home in San Francisco's Nob Hill district. 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 while on a trip to Florence, Italy. About $20 million of the Stanford fortune originally went into the university, with the estimated total fortune approximately $50 million as of the late 1880s. Leland Stanford died at home in Palo Alto, California and is buried in the Stanford Mausoleum on the Stanford campus. ==See also== *Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park ==Reference== * [http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/govsgallery/h/biography/governor_8.html governor.ca.gov: Governor Leland Stanford of California] * * * 1824 births 1893 deaths Governors of California United States Senators United States railroad executives Stanford University
Wetheter or not this is a stub is not worth an edit war. Everyone should calm down, take a deep breath, and talk about it. User:Gentgeen 09:53, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC) :I'm not the unresponsive one - "A wikipedia:Stub on Wikipedia is a very short article, generally of one paragraph or less" --User:JiangUser talk:Jiang 06:07, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC) ::I wasn't assigning blame, just sugesting there was a lot of effort going into an edit war over a stub notice. I just wanted a cooling off period, which I believe has happened. User:Gentgeen 07:12, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC) ---- == Full name == Shouldn't his full name be "Amasa Leland Stanford, Junior"? Since Stanford Uni's full name is exactly that (minus ''Amasa'' and the comma). --User:Menchi 03:57, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC) :It should be "Amasa Leland Stanford, Senior", since Stanfurd University is named after his son. But since his son wasn't really notable and died young, we might as well settle w/o the "senior".--User:JiangUser talk:Jiang 06:06, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC) == Why I reverted == The last edit, by an anon, changed two facts. One of the facts was the end date of Stanford's term as Governor from 1963 to 1967. As this doesn't match with the [http://www.capitolmuseum.ca.gov/english/legislature/governors/index.html California State Capitol Museum] or the Secretary of State of California's list of Governors (I've got the PDF here, but don't remember the link), I'm going to assume bad faith on the other change as well. If I'm wrong, please provide documentation. User:Gentgeen 20:34, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC) == Disputed facts from anon == The following dispute from 66.81.61.79 was placed in the article over the weekend: :Stanford was never president of the southern Pacific Railroad. Anyone who thinks he was simply knows no railroad or Stanford history. Moreover, Stanford did not die in Palo Alto. He died at his home on the Palo Alto Stock Farm. On both points and thousands of others, see my The Governor: The Life and Legacy of Leland Stanford. Norman E. Tutorow NET@TDL.Com As to the presidency claim, I found that in a book on the history of the Southern Pacific railroad. I'll find the full reference and add it as soon as I can. User:Slambo 15:43, Jan 31, 2005 (UTC)
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Amasa Leland Stanford (March 9, 1824–June 21, 1893) was an United States business tycoon, politician and founder of Stanford University. He was born in Watervliet, New York, one of eight children of Josiah and Elizabeth Phillips Stanford. Stanford's ancestors settled in the Mohawk Valley of New York around 1720. He attended Clinton Liberal Institute, in Clinton, New York, and studied law at Cazenovia Seminary in Cazenovia, New York and later in Albany, New York. He was admitted to the bar in 1848, and then moved to Port Washington, Wisconsin. He married Jane Stanford in Albany on September 30, 1850. In 1852, having lost his law library and other property by fire, he moved to California and began mining for gold at Michigan Bluff, California in Placer County, California. He subsequently went into in business with his three brothers, who had preceded him to the Pacific coast. During this time he worked with his brothers as keeper of a general store for miners, served as a Justice of the Peace and helped organize the Sacramento Library Association, which later became the Sacramento Public Library. In 1856 he moved to San Francisco and engaged in mercantile pursuits on a large scale. He was a delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention. As one of The Big Four, he cofounded and was made president of the Central Pacific Railroad company in 1861. As president of the Central Pacific, he superintended its construction over the mountains, building 530 miles in 293 days. As head of the railroad company which built the First Transcontinental Railroad (North America) line over the Sierra Nevada (US), Stanford hammered in the famous golden spike on May 10, 1869. In 1872 Stanford commissioned Eadweard Muybridge to use newly invented photographic technology to establish whether galloping horses ever lift all four hooves off the ground. (The verdict, by the way, was that horses ''do'' lift all four hooves off the ground.) This project, which illustrated motion through a series of still images viewed together, was a forerunner of motion picture technology. Stanford served as president of Southern Pacific Railroad from 1885 to 1890, and while continuing to serve as the head of the Central Pacific Railroad until his death in 1893. As a railroad developer, Stanford encouraged China immigration to find workers for the railroad construction. However, when jobs were scarce, Stanford made them a scapegoat. Stanford encouraged the California legislature to pass taxes and unfair regulations which specifically targeted Chinese. Stanford, a member of the United States Republican Party, was politically active. He was the eighth List of California Governors, serving from December, 1861 to December, 1863. During his gubernatorial tenure, he cut the state's debt in half, and advocated for the conservation of forests. He also oversaw the establishment of the state normal school in San Francisco, later to become San José State University. Following Stanford's service, the term for governorship changed from two years to four years, in line with legislation passed during his time in office. He later served slightly more than one term in the United States Senate, from 1885 until his death in 1893 at age 69. He served for four years as Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. He also owned the great Vina farm of 55,000 acres (220 km²) in Tehama County, California, containing what was then the largest vineyard in the world at 13,400 acres (54 km²), the Gridley tract of 22,000 acres (90 km²) in Butte County, California and the Palo Alto Stock Farm, which was the home of his famous thoroughbred racers, Electioneer, Anon, Sunol, Palo Alto and Advertiser. The Palo Alto breeding farm gave Stanford University its nickname of ''The Farm''. The Stanfords also owned a stately mansion in Sacramento, California (this was the birthplace of their only son, and now a house museum used for California state social occasions), as well as a home in San Francisco's Nob Hill district. 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 while on a trip to Florence, Italy. About $20 million of the Stanford fortune originally went into the university, with the estimated total fortune approximately $50 million as of the late 1880s. Leland Stanford died at home in Palo Alto, California and is buried in the Stanford Mausoleum on the Stanford campus. ==See also== *Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park ==Reference== * [http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/govsgallery/h/biography/governor_8.html governor.ca.gov: Governor Leland Stanford of California] * * * 1824 births 1893 deaths Governors of California United States Senators United States railroad executives Stanford University
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Wetheter or not this is a stub is not worth an edit war. Everyone should calm down, take a deep breath, and talk about it. User:Gentgeen 09:53, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC) :I'm not the unresponsive one - "A wikipedia:Stub on Wikipedia is a very short article, generally of one paragraph or less" --User:JiangUser talk:Jiang 06:07, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC) ::I wasn't assigning blame, just sugesting there was a lot of effort going into an edit war over a stub notice. I just wanted a cooling off period, which I believe has happened. User:Gentgeen 07:12, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC) ---- == Full name == Shouldn't his full name be "Amasa Leland Stanford, Junior"? Since Stanford Uni's full name is exactly that (minus ''Amasa'' and the comma). --User:Menchi 03:57, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC) :It should be "Amasa Leland Stanford, Senior", since Stanfurd University is named after his son. But since his son wasn't really notable and died young, we might as well settle w/o the "senior".--User:JiangUser talk:Jiang 06:06, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC) == Why I reverted == The last edit, by an anon, changed two facts. One of the facts was the end date of Stanford's term as Governor from 1963 to 1967. As this doesn't match with the [http://www.capitolmuseum.ca.gov/english/legislature/governors/index.html California State Capitol Museum] or the Secretary of State of California's list of Governors (I've got the PDF here, but don't remember the link), I'm going to assume bad faith on the other change as well. If I'm wrong, please provide documentation. User:Gentgeen 20:34, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC) == Disputed facts from anon == The following dispute from 66.81.61.79 was placed in the article over the weekend: :Stanford was never president of the southern Pacific Railroad. Anyone who thinks he was simply knows no railroad or Stanford history. Moreover, Stanford did not die in Palo Alto. He died at his home on the Palo Alto Stock Farm. On both points and thousands of others, see my The Governor: The Life and Legacy of Leland Stanford. Norman E. Tutorow NET@TDL.Com As to the presidency claim, I found that in a book on the history of the Southern Pacific railroad. I'll find the full reference and add it as soon as I can. User:Slambo 15:43, Jan 31, 2005 (UTC)
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