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Leland Stanford

Leland Stanford was born in New York in the year 1824. Stanford went west durnig the gold rush in 1852 and, with his brothers, helped run a general store, became Justice of the Peace, and helped found the Sacramento Library Association. He worked up to the position as the Central Pacific president and drove the final golden spike into the railroad. Also, he and his wife, Jane Stanford, founded Stanford College in memory of their only son, Leland Stanford, Jr., after his teenage death of typhoid.

Information Provided By: America: Pathways to the Past, pg. 231 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Stanford http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Leland_Stanford_p1070023.jpg