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Leland Stanford   /lˈilənd stˈænfərd/   Listen
Leland Stanford

noun
1.
United States railroad executive and founder of Stanford University (1824-1893).  Synonym: Stanford.






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"Leland Stanford" Quotes from Famous Books



... 600, only about 200 are in evidence. It is to be regretted that more did not come to light. If the public could only be privileged to read what he wrote to Leland Stanford, and to Charles Crocker, and to Mark Hopkins—as well as to David D. Colton—there there would be much to reflect upon. But the public never will see such letters. The nature of them ...
— How Members of Congress Are Bribed • Joseph Moore

... Prncipe que Todo lo aprendi en los Libros, and Martnez Sierra's Teatro de Ensueo, edited by Aurelio M. Espinosa, Associate Professor of Spanish, Leland Stanford Junior University; Benavente's Los Intereses Creados, edited by Francisco Piol, Instructor in Spanish, University of Pittsburgh, and Tamayo y Baus' Ms Vale Maa que Fuerza, edited by C. Everett Conant, Professor of Modern Languages, University of ...
— Ms vale maa que fuerza • Manuel Tamayo y Baus

... applies not merely to kings of England, but to kings of Steel, kings of Coal, kings of Oil, kings of Wall Street. Leland Stanford, son of a great king of Western railroads, died; and standing over his coffin, a Methodist clergyman, afterwards Bishop, preached a sermon of fulsome flattery, wherein he likened young Leland to the boy Christ. ...
— The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition • Upton Sinclair

... Lake they received complimentary passes to California and throughout that State, from Governor Leland Stanford, always a helpful friend to woman suffrage. They reached San Francisco July 9, and took rooms at the Grand Hotel, at that time the best in the city. Their coming had been heralded by the press and they experienced the royal California welcome, receiving flowers, fruit, calls and invitations in abundance. ...
— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper

... to have been of surpassing richness and beauty, was woven and embroidered in a factory upon the Chandni Chauk, and the merchant who made it is constantly receiving orders from the different courts of Europe and from the leading dressmakers of London, Paris and Vienna. He told us that Mrs. Leland Stanford had commissioned him to furnish the museum of her university in California the finest possible samples of different styles of Indian embroidery, and his workmen were then engaged in producing them. Her contract, he said, amounted to more ...
— Modern India • William Eleroy Curtis



Words linked to "Leland Stanford" :   businessman, Stanford, man of affairs



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