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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



... an incident of extraordinary character is narrated. Among the statues on the buildings of the Leland Stanford, Jr., University, all of which were overthrown, was a marble statue of Carrara in a niche on the building devoted to zoology and physiology. This in falling broke through a hard cement pavement and buried itself in the ground below, from which it was dug. The singular fact is that when recovered ...
— The San Francisco Calamity • Various
... ever saw an angry man in my life it was Leland Stanford. He fairly raved. He jumped at his old speciality, Gov. Low's head; he tore it loose from his body and knocked him down with ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) • Various


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


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