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Leland Stanford was president of the Southern Pacific Railroad, served as governor of California from 1862 to 1863, and was a United States senator from California from 1885 until his death in 1893. On May 14, 1868, Jane Stanford gave birth to a son, Leland Stanford, Jr., at age 39. He died at age 15 on March 13, 1884, of typhoid fever while ...
Jane Stanford, co-founder of Stanford University and wife of California governor Leland Stanford, died from strychnine poisoning in 1905. Her last recorded words were "My jaws are stiff. This is a horrible death to die." [28] Her murderer was never identified.
In 1905, Jordan launched an apparent coverup of the murder of Jane Stanford. While vacationing in Oahu , Stanford had suddenly died of strychnine poisoning according to the local coroner's jury. Jordan then sailed to Hawaii , hired a physician to investigate the case, and declared she had in fact died of heart failure , a condition whose ...
On Feb. 28, 1905, Jane Stanford enjoyed a languid day in Honolulu, one that she no doubt needed.. The last decade had been a trial for Jane. There was the death of her husband and the dispute over ...
Jane Stanford is so very bad, she is good: When she finally died, two-thirds of the way through the book, I missed her. There were many other liars, notably the president of Stanford University ...
National Poison Prevention Week. National Poison Prevention Week is observed in the United States the third week of March. The goal of the week is to raise awareness of the risk of being poisoned by household products, medicines, pesticides, plants, bites and stings, food poisoning, and fumes. Awareness being duly raised, it is hoped that this ...
Crothers set up a law practice with his brother, Thomas [4] —also a Stanford graduate and a lawyer—and became a close adviser to Jane Stanford. [2] Together with his brother, Crothers identified and corrected numerous major legal defects in the terms of the university's founding grant [6] and successfully lobbied for an amendment to the California state constitution granting Stanford an ...
The Stanford Cancer Institute is an NCI-designated Cancer Center at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. It is one of eight comprehensive cancer centers in California. The Stanford Cancer Institute leverages the scientific, technological, and human resources of Stanford University and Stanford Health Care to enhance the understanding of cancer ...