F or a decade following her husband’s death in 1893, Jane Lathrop Stanford was the sole trustee of the University the couple had established in memory of their son.

01/07/2021 · On the gusty, rain-soaked evening of January 14, 1905, Jane Lathrop Stanford prepared for bed in her mansion on San Francisco’s Nob Hill. The 76-year-old widow of the railroad baron Leland Stanford lived alone in the dark, 50-room Italianate palace, tended by servants. Suffering from a bad cold, Jane drank from a bottle of Poland Spring water ...

26/02/2020 · Jane Stanford Way. This pedestrian and bicycle mall—between Stanford’s Oval and the Quad—was renamed for Jane Elizabeth Lathrop Stanford in October 2019, and is the first major feature on campus to honor her. Jane co-founded the university in 1885 with her husband, Leland Stanford.

18/10/2019 · Jane Stanford, who is now the namesake of the main thoroughfare in front of Main Quad, was the co-founder of Stanford University. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) By Kirsten Mettler on October 18, 2019

08/01/2018 · A portrait of Jane and Leland Stanford from 1850. Public Domain Jane Lathrop was born in Albany, New York in 1828, the daughter of a local shopkeeper and his wife.

There was a great deal of gossip in San Francisco when Mrs. Jane Stanford suddenly left her Nob Hill mansion for Hawaii on February 15, 1905. Ill health was one theory. Low spirits another. But, most shocking of all, the persistent rumor that, one month prior, someone had tried to murder the co-founder of Stanford University.

A History of Stanford. Stanford University was founded in 1885 by California senator Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane, “to promote the public welfare by exercising an influence in behalf of humanity and civilization.”. A portrait of Senator Leland Stanford, Jane Lathrop Stanford, Leland Stanford Jr. taken in 1878.