Leland Stanford, American Industrialist
Stanford stood for this portrait about the time he completed his Central Pacific Railroad, 1869. Amasa Leland Stanford (March 9, 1824 - June 21, 1893) was an American tycoon, industrialist and politician. Migrating to California from New York at the time of the Gold Rush, he became a successful merchant and wholesaler, and continued to build his business empire. In in 1868, while the Central Pacific was under construction, Stanford and his associates acquired control of the Southern Pacific Railroad. As head of the railroad company that built the western portion of the "First Transcontinental Railroad" he presided at the ceremonial driving of "Last Spike" in Promontory, Utah. In 1895, with his wife Jane, he founded Leland Stanford Junior University as a memorial for their only child, Leland Stanford, Jr., who died as a teenager of typhoid fever. The wealth of the Stanford family during the late 19th century is estimated at about $50 million (about $ billion in 2010 dollars). Long suffering from locomotor ataxia, Stanford died of heart failure in 1893 at the age of 69. No photographer credited, dated 1869.
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