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However, school administrators disallowed it, saying it was disrespectful to the school's founder, Leland Stanford. [17] In academia, the education division of the National Endowment for the Humanities has prepared a lesson plan for schools asking whether "robber baron" or "captain of industry" is the better term. They state:
In Henry T. Williams' The Pacific tourist – Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean published in 1878, the Big Four was replaced by the Five Associates or Representative Men of the Central Pacific Railroad, with Charles Crocker's older brother Judge Edwin B. Crocker (1818–1875), who served as the CPRR attorney from 1865 to 1869, added.
Leland Stanford Stanford in 1890 United States Senator from California In office March 4, 1885 – June 21, 1893 Preceded by James T. Farley Succeeded by George Clement Perkins 8th Governor of California In office January 10, 1862 – December 10, 1863 Lieutenant John F. Chellis Preceded by John Gately Downey Succeeded by Frederick Ferdinand Low Personal details Born Amasa Leland Stanford ...
The 1975 vote included new suggestions, many alluding to the industry of the school's founder, railroad tycoon Leland Stanford: the Robber Barons, the Sequoias, the Trees, the Cardinals, the Railroaders, the Spikes, and the Huns. The Robber Barons won, but the university's administration refused to implement the vote.
The gesture was a tribute to their only son, Leland Jr., who died of typhoid fever at age 15. After Leland Sr. died in 1893, Stanford University was Jane’s only love. She ran it like she owned ...
These include people such as Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Mellon, Leland Stanford and John D. Rockefeller. The education division of the National Endowment for the Humanities has prepared a lesson plan for schools asking whether "robber baron" or "captain of industry" is the better terminology. The lesson states that it ...
"Leland Stanford was a member of a successful class, he became known as a robber baron, a selfish representative of the octopus-age of railroad growth." Tuterow, Norman E. The governor: the life and legacy of Leland Stanford, a California colossus, Volume 2. (2004: Arthur H. Clark Co.2004) page 1146.
Leland Stanford (1824–1893), American politician & robber baron Retrospectively diagnosed or suspected to have died of syphilis. [8] Camilo Castelo Branco (1825–1890), Portuguese writer Died by suicide on account of blindness caused by neurosyphilis. Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), Russian writer Suspected to have had syphilis [9]