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Leland Stanford

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Amasa Leland Stanford (March 9, 1824June 21, 1893) was an American tycoon, industrialist, politician, and the founder (with his wife, Jane) of Stanford University. [1]

120 relations: Alameda County, California, Albany, New York, Big Four (Central Pacific Railroad), Business magnate, Butte County, California, California, California Gold Rush, California Hall of Fame, California Republican Party, California State Library, California State Railroad Museum, Camp Grant, Arizona, Cazenovia (village), New York, Cazenovia College, Central Pacific Railroad, Charles Crocker, Charles N. Felton, Charles Stanford (politician), Charlestown, Boston, China, Clinton Liberal Institute, Clinton, Oneida County, New York, Collis Potter Huntington, Colonie, New York, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Darius Ogden Mills, Eadweard Muybridge, El Gobernador, Entrepreneurship, First Transcontinental Railroad, Florence, Frederick Low, Freemasonry, George Clement Perkins, George Hearst, Gold standard, Golden spike, Gov. Stanford, Governor of California, Great Flood of 1862, Herbert Hoover, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, James T. Farley, Jane Stanford, Japan, John F. Chellis, John Franklin Miller (senator), John G. Downey, Justice of the peace, Karl von Struve, ..., Leland Stanford Jr., Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park, Leland Stanford Winery, Lisha Kill, New York, List of Governors of California, List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899), Lloyd Tevis, Locomotor ataxia, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Mark Hopkins Jr., Merchant, Michigan Bluff, California, Milwaukee, Miner, Mohawk Valley, New York (state), New-York Tribune, Nob Hill, San Francisco, Normal school, Norris Locomotive Works, Omaha, Nebraska, Pacific Life, Palo Alto Stock Farm Horse Barn, Palo Alto, California, People's Party (United States), Philadelphia, Placer County, California, Politician, Port Washington, Wisconsin, President of the United States, Promontory, Utah, Rancho Bosquejo, Rancho Esquon, Republican Party (United States), Robber baron (industrialist), Robert S. Lovett, Roessleville, New York, Sacramento, California, Sallie Gardner at a Gallop, San Francisco, San Jose State University, Santa Clara County, California, Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Southern Pacific Transportation Company, Standardbred, Stanford Court Hotel, Stanford Mausoleum, Stanford Memorial Church, Stanford University, Stephen M. White, Strychnine poisoning, Tehama County, California, The California Museum, Theodore Judah, Thomas Welton Stanford, Thoroughbred, Typhoid fever, Union Pacific Railroad, United States dollar, United States Senate, United States Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, Washington County, Wisconsin, Washington, D.C., Watervliet (town), New York, Wells Fargo, Whig Party (United States), Worker cooperative, 1906 San Francisco earthquake, 4-10-0, 4-4-0. Expand index (70 more) »

Alameda County, California

Alameda County is a county in the state of California in the United States.

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Albany, New York

Albany is the capital of the U.S. state of New York and the seat of Albany County.

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Big Four (Central Pacific Railroad)

"The Big Four" was the name popularly given to the famous and influential businessmen, philanthropists and railroad tycoons who built the Central Pacific Railroad, (C.P.R.R.), which formed the western portion through the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States, built from the mid-continent at the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean during the middle and late 1860s.

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Business magnate

A business magnate (formally industrialist) refers to an entrepreneur of great influence, importance, or standing in a particular enterprise or field of business.

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Butte County, California

Butte County is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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California Gold Rush

The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.

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California Hall of Fame

The California Hall of Fame honors individuals and families who embody California’s innovative spirit and have made their mark on history.

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California Republican Party

The California Republican Party (CAGOP) is the California affiliate of the United States Republican Party.

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California State Library

The California State Library collects, preserves, generates and disseminates a wide array of information.

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California State Railroad Museum

The California State Railroad Museum is a museum in the state park system of California, USA, interpreting the role of the "iron horse" in connecting California to the rest of the nation.

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Camp Grant, Arizona

Camp Grant was the name used from 1866 to 1872 for the United States military post at the confluence of the San Pedro River and Aravaipa Creek in the Arizona Territory.

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Cazenovia (village), New York

Cazenovia is a village located in the Town of Cazenovia in Madison County, New York, United States.

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Cazenovia College

Cazenovia College is a small, independent, co-educational, baccalaureate college, located in Cazenovia, New York, United States.

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Central Pacific Railroad

The Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) was a rail route between California and Utah built eastwards from the West Coast in the 1860s, to complete the western part of the "First Transcontinental Railroad" in North America.

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Charles Crocker

Charles Crocker (September 16, 1822 – August 14, 1888) was an American railroad executive who founded the Central Pacific Railroad, which constructed the westernmost portion of the first transcontinental railroad, and took control with partners of the Southern Pacific Railroad.

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Charles N. Felton

Charles Norton Felton (January 1, 1832September 13, 1914) was a Congressman and U.S. Senator from California.

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Charles Stanford (politician)

Charles Stanford (April 26, 1819 Watervliet (now Colonie), Albany County, New York – August 24, 1885) was an American merchant, newspaper publisher and politician from New York.

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Charlestown, Boston

Charlestown is the oldest neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Clinton Liberal Institute

The Clinton Liberal Institute was a coeducational preparatory school established by the Universalist Church in the village of Clinton, in the Town of Kirkland, New York, in 1831, relocated to Fort Plain, New York in 1878, and remaining there until its buildings were destroyed in a fire in 1900.

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Clinton, Oneida County, New York

Clinton (or Ka-dah-wis-dag, "white field" in Seneca language) is a village in Oneida County, New York, United States.

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Collis Potter Huntington

Collis Potter Huntington (October 22, 1821 – August 13, 1900) was one of the Big Four of western railroading (along with Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker) who built the Central Pacific Railroad as part of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad.

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Colonie, New York

Colonie is a town in Albany County, New York, United States.

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Council Bluffs, Iowa

Council Bluffs is a city in and the county seat of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States.

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Darius Ogden Mills

Darius Ogden Mills (September 25, 1825 – January 3, 1910) was a prominent American banker and philanthropist.

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Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904, born Edward James Muggeridge) was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection.

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El Gobernador

El Gobernador was a 4-10-0 steam locomotive built by Central Pacific Railroad at the railroad's Sacramento, California shops.

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Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is the process of designing, launching and running a new business, which is often initially a small business.

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First Transcontinental Railroad

The First Transcontinental Railroad (also called the Great Transcontinental Railroad, known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") was a continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Omaha, Nebraska/Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay.

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Florence

Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.

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Frederick Low

Frederick Ferdinand Low (June 30, 1828July 21, 1894) was an American politician, US congressman and the ninth governor of California.

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Freemasonry

Freemasonry or Masonry consists of fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons, which from the end of the fourteenth century regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.

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George Clement Perkins

George Clement Perkins (August 23, 1839February 26, 1923) was a U.S. Republican politician, who was the 14th governor of California from January 8, 1880, to January 10, 1883, and a United States senator from 1893 until 1915.

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George Hearst

George Hearst (September 3, 1820 – February 28, 1891) was a wealthy American businessman and politician.

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Gold standard

A gold standard is a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is based on a fixed quantity of gold.

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Golden spike

The golden spike (also known as The Last Spike) is the ceremonial 17.6-karat gold final spike driven by Leland Stanford to join the rails of the First Transcontinental Railroad across the United States connecting the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory.

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Gov. Stanford

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Governor of California

The Governor of California is the head of government of the U.S. state of California.

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Great Flood of 1862

The Great Flood of 1862 was the largest flood in the recorded history of Oregon, Nevada, and California, occurring from December 1861 to January 1862.

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Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American engineer, businessman and politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression.

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Independent Order of Odd Fellows

The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) is a non-political and non-sectarian international fraternal order founded in 1819 by Thomas Wildey in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

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James T. Farley

James Thompson Farley (August 6, 1829January 22, 1886) was an American politician.

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Jane Stanford

Jane Elizabeth Lathrop Stanford (August 25, 1828 – February 28, 1905) was a co-founder of Stanford University in 1885 (opened 1891) along with her husband, Leland Stanford, as a memorial to their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who died in 1884 at the age of 15.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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John F. Chellis

John F. Chellis (1792-1883) was a Republican who became the ninth Lieutenant Governor of California from 1862 to 1863.

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John Franklin Miller (senator)

John Franklin Miller (November 21, 1831 – March 8, 1886) was a lawyer, businessman, and general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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John G. Downey

John Gately Downey (June 24, 1827 – March 1, 1894) was an Irish-American politician and the seventh governor of California from January 14, 1860 to January 10, 1862.

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Justice of the peace

A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer, of a lower or puisne court, elected or appointed by means of a commission (letters patent) to keep the peace.

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Karl von Struve

Karl von Struve (26 November 1835 – 26 June 1907) (Кирилл Васильевич Струве) (Alternate spelling in U.S.: de Struve) was a Russian nobleman and politician.

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Leland Stanford Jr.

Leland Stanford Jr. (May 14, 1868 – March 13, 1884), known as Leland DeWitt Stanford until age nine, is the namesake of Stanford University, adjacent to Palo Alto, California, United States.

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Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park

Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park is a state and federally protected historic site in Sacramento, California.

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Leland Stanford Winery

Leland Stanford Winery was a winery located in the Santa Clara Valley AVA, in Fremont, California, United States.

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Lisha Kill, New York

Lisha Kill is a hamlet in the town of Colonie, Albany County, New York.

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List of Governors of California

The Governor of California is the chief executive of the California state government, whose responsibilities include making annual State of the State addresses to the California State Legislature, submitting the budget, and ensuring that state laws are enforced.

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List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899)

The following is a list of U.S. Senators and Representatives who died of natural or accidental causes, or who took their own lives, while serving their terms between 1790 and 1899.

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Lloyd Tevis

Lloyd Tevis (March 20, 1824 – July 24, 1899) was a banker and capitalist who served as president of Wells Fargo & Company from 1872 to 1892.

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Locomotor ataxia

Locomotor ataxia is the inability to precisely control one's own bodily movements.

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Lucile Packard Children's Hospital

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford (LPCH) is a children's hospital which is part of the Stanford University system.

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Mark Hopkins Jr.

Mark Hopkins (September 1, 1813 – March 29, 1878) was one of four principal investors who formed the Central Pacific Railroad along with Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, and Collis Huntington in 1861.

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Merchant

A merchant is a person who trades in commodities produced by other people.

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Michigan Bluff, California

Michigan Bluff (formerly, Michigan Bluffs and Michigan City) is an unincorporated community in Placer County, California.

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Milwaukee

Milwaukee is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States.

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Miner

A miner is a person who extracts ore, coal, or other mineral from the earth through mining.

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Mohawk Valley

The Mohawk Valley region of the U.S. state of New York is the area surrounding the Mohawk River, sandwiched between the Adirondack Mountains and Catskill Mountains.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New-York Tribune

The New-York Tribune was an American newspaper, first established in 1841 by editor Horace Greeley (1811–1872).

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Nob Hill, San Francisco

Nob Hill is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, centered on the intersection of California Street and Powell Street.

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Normal school

A normal school was an institution created to train high school graduates to be teachers by educating them in the norms of pedagogy and curriculum.

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Norris Locomotive Works

The Norris Locomotive Works was a steam locomotive manufacturing company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that produced nearly one thousand railroad engines between 1832 and 1866.

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Omaha, Nebraska

Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County.

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Pacific Life

Pacific Life Insurance Company is an American insurance company providing life insurance products, annuities, and mutual funds, and offers a variety of investment products and services to individuals, businesses, and pension plans.

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Palo Alto Stock Farm Horse Barn

Palo Alto Stock Farm Horse Barn, also known as Stanford Red Barn or Stanford Stables, is located at present-day address 100 Electioneer Road in Stanford, California.

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Palo Alto, California

Palo Alto is a charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area of the United States.

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People's Party (United States)

The People's Party, also known as the Populist Party or the Populists, was an agrarian-populist political party in the United States.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Placer County, California

Placer County, officially the County of Placer, is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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Politician

A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking office in government.

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Port Washington, Wisconsin

Port Washington is the county seat of Ozaukee County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Promontory, Utah

Promontory is an area of high ground in Box Elder County, Utah, 32 mi (51 km) west of Brigham City and 66 mi (106 km) northwest of Salt Lake City.

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Rancho Bosquejo

Rancho Bosquejo (also called "Lassen's Rancho") was a Mexican land grant in present-day Tehama County, California given in 1844 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Peter Lassen.

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Rancho Esquon

Rancho Esquon (also called Neal’s Rancho) was a Mexican land grant in present-day Butte County, California given in 1844 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Samuel Neal.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.

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Robber baron (industrialist)

"Robber baron" is a derogatory metaphor of social criticism originally applied to certain late 19th-century American businessmen who used unscrupulous methods to get rich.

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Robert S. Lovett

Robert Scott Lovett (June 22, 1860 – June 19, 1932) was an American lawyer and railroad executive.

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Roessleville, New York

Roessleville is a hamlet in the town of Colonie, Albany County, New York.

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Sacramento, California

Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County.

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Sallie Gardner at a Gallop

Sallie Gardner at a Gallop, also known as The Horse in Motion, is a series of photographs consisting of a galloping horse, the result of a photographic experiment by Eadweard Muybridge on June 15, 1878.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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San Jose State University

San José State University (commonly referred to as San Jose State or SJSU) is a public comprehensive university located in San Jose, California, in Silicon Valley.

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Santa Clara County, California

Santa Clara County, officially the County of Santa Clara, is California's 6th most populous county, with a population was 1,781,642, as of the 2010 census.

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Sierra Nevada (U.S.)

The Sierra Nevada (snowy saw range) is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin.

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Southern Pacific Transportation Company

The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials- SP) was an American Class I railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1998 that operated in the Western United States.

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Standardbred

The Standardbred is an American horse breed best known for its ability in harness racing, where members of the breed compete at either a trot or pace.

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Stanford Court Hotel

The Stanford Court San Francisco is a full service four star independent hotel located at 905 California Street on Nob Hill in San Francisco, California.

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Stanford Mausoleum

The Stanford Mausoleum, located in the Northwest of the Stanford University campus in the Stanford University Arboretum, holds the remains of the university's namesake Leland Stanford, Jr. and his parents Leland and Jane Stanford.

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Stanford Memorial Church

Stanford Memorial Church (also referred to informally as MemChu) is located on the Main Quad at the center of the Stanford University campus in Stanford, California, United States.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University, colloquially the Farm) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Stephen M. White

Stephen Mallory White (January 19, 1853February 21, 1901) was an American politician and U.S. Senator from California.

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Strychnine poisoning

Strychnine poisoning can be fatal to humans and other animals and can occur by inhalation, swallowing or absorption through eyes or mouth.

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Tehama County, California

Tehama County is a county located in the northern part of the U.S. state of California.

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The California Museum

The California Museum, formerly The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts – home of the California Hall of Fame – is housed in the State Archives Building in Sacramento, one block from the State Capitol.

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Theodore Judah

Theodore Dehone Judah (March 4, 1826 – November 2, 1863) was an American railroad and civil engineer who was a central figure in the original promotion, establishment, and design of the First Transcontinental Railroad.

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Thomas Welton Stanford

Thomas Welton Stanford (1832–1918), also known as Welton Stanford, was an American-born Australian businessman, spiritualist and philanthropist, most notably toward Stanford University, which was founded by his older brother Leland Stanford.

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Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing.

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Typhoid fever

Typhoid fever, also known simply as typhoid, is a bacterial infection due to ''Salmonella'' typhi that causes symptoms.

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Union Pacific Railroad

The Union Pacific Railroad (or Union Pacific Railroad Company and simply Union Pacific) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.

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United States Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds

The U.S. Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds was a committee of the United States Senate from 1883 until 1946.

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Washington County, Wisconsin

Washington County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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Watervliet (town), New York

The town of Watervliet was a town that at its height encompassed most of present-day Albany County and most of the current town of Niskayuna in neighboring Schenectady County, in the state of New York, United States.

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Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo & Company is an American multinational financial services company headquartered in San Francisco, California, with central offices throughout the country.

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Whig Party (United States)

The Whig Party was a political party active in the middle of the 19th century in the United States.

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Worker cooperative

A worker cooperative, is a cooperative that is owned and self-managed by its workers.

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1906 San Francisco earthquake

The 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck the coast of Northern California at 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18 with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme).

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4-10-0

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 4-10-0 represents the wheel arrangement of four leading wheels, ten powered and coupled driving wheels, and no trailing wheels.

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4-4-0

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, represents the arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles, usually in a leading bogie, four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles, and no trailing wheels.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Stanford

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