Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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Senator £elanH Stanford. F BIOGRAPHY it must be said with regret that it is at best character, of one who in life has gained the affection and challenged the respect of his fellow-men. And this regret is heightened when biography, failing in this, as it too often does, becomes no more than a dull enumeration of facts from which all the animation and most of the meaning have departed. Fortunate indeed are those who, from a fund of personal recollection, can revivify the coldly recorded facts of a life history, for with them must always remain some of that life’s inspiration and magnetism. It is for this reason that the students who entered the University during the first two years of its existence must always be envied, for they were privileged to know Senator Stanford personally. I,ater comers, it is true, know him and will know him from the written word or the hewn marble ; they will gather impressions also from the Quadrangle’s architectural beauties, and, as Professor Newcomer so beautifully puts it, We venture, however, that the pioneer students will retain most vividly in their memories, associated somehow with the hazy autumn days of ’91, with brown hills, blue sky and inviting vineyards, with cool drives shaded by pine, eucalyptus, or walnut rich in russet coloring, the kindly presence of Iceland Stanford and the grave bow of recognition which made the boyish heart flutter so strangely and stirred the boyish ambition just a little deeper than anything else. Leland Stanford was born in Watervliet, eight miles from Albany, N. Y., on the 9th of March, 1824. His father, Josiah Stanford, a native of Massachusetts, was a successful farmer and railroad contractor. In 1848 the son was admitted to the bar, and began practice at Port Washington, Wis. In 1850 he married Jane Lathrop, the daughter of Dyer Lathrop of Albany. Two years later a fire, in which his valuable law library was destroyed, turned his footsteps toward the mining camps of the Golden State. From July 12, 1852, when he landed in San Francisco, down to 1861, when he became California’s war Governor, mercantile and mining enterprises on a steadily increasing scale claimed his attention. but a sorry attempt to preserve in memory the achievements, the preeminent personality, the strength and gentleness of “ marvel that the very stones disclose The spirit of their builder’s amplitude, And manhood’s deep repose.” 10