Stanford, Leland, Sr.

Leland Stanford, Sr. (1824–93), was born on March 9, 1824, to a relatively wealthy farming family in Albany County, New York. Stanford practiced law in New York and Wisconsin before traveling to California to participate in the Gold Rush. He went ...

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