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See also:LELAND See also:STANFORD JR . UNIVERSITY, near Palo See also:Alto, See also:California, U.S.A., in the beautiful See also:Santa See also:Clara valley, was founded in 1885 by Leland Stanford' (1824–1893), and by his wife Jane See also:Lathrop Stanford (1825–1905), as a memorial to their only See also:child, Leland Stanford, Jr., who died in 1884 in his seventeenth See also:year. The doors were opened in 1891 to 559 students. The university campus consists of Stanford's former Palo Alto See also:farm, which comprises about 9000 acres. From the campus there are charming views of See also:San Francisco See also:Bay, of the See also:Coast Range, particularly of See also:Mount See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton some 30 M. E. with the Lick See also:Observatory on its See also:summit, of See also:mountain foothills, and of the magnificent redwood forests toward Santa Cruz.
The buildings, designed originally by H. H. See also:Richardson and completed by his successors, Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, are of soft See also:buff See also:sandstone in a See also:style adapted from the old California See also:mission (Moorish-Romanesque) See also:architecture, being See also:long and See also:low with wide colonnades, open See also:arches and red tiled See also:roofs. An See also:outer surrounds an inner quadrangle of buildings. The
Stanford was See also:born in See also:Watervliet, New See also:York; studied See also:law in See also:Albany; removed to California in 1852 and went into business at See also:Michigan See also:Bluff, Placer See also:county, whence he removed to See also:Sacramento in 1856; was made See also:president in 1861 of the Central Pacific railroad See also:company, which built the first trans-See also:continental railway See also:line over the Sierra See also:Nevada; was See also:governor of California in 1862–1863, and See also:United States senator in 1885–1893; and was owner of the See also:great Vina farm (55,o0o acres) in Tehama county, containing the largest vineyard in the See also:world (13,400 acres), the Gridley See also:tract (22,000 acres) in See also:Butte county, and the Palo Alto breeding farm, which was the See also:home of his famous thoroughbred racers, Electioneer, See also:Arlon, Sunol, Palo Alto and Advertiser.
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