The Leland Stanford Junior University

The Leland Stanford Junior University
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Synopsis The Leland Stanford Junior University by : Stanford University

The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford

The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 206
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ISBN-10 : 0804747938
ISBN-13 : 9780804747936
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Synopsis The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford by : Robert W. P. Cutler

Jane Stanford, the co-founder of Stanford University, died in Honolulu in 1905, shortly after surviving strychnine poisoning in San Francisco. The inquest testimony of the physicians who attended her death in Hawaii led to a coroner’s jury verdict of murder—by strychnine poisoning. Stanford University President David Starr Jordan promptly issued a press release claiming that Mrs. Stanford had died of heart disease, a claim that he supported by challenging the skills and judgment of the Honolulu physicians and toxicologist. Jordan’s diagnosis was largely accepted and promulgated in many subsequent historical accounts. In this book, the author reviews the medical reports in detail to refute Dr. Jordan’s claim and to show that Mrs. Stanford indeed died of strychnine poisoning. His research reveals that the professionals who were denounced by Dr. Jordan enjoyed honorable and distinguished careers. He concludes that Dr. Jordan went to great lengths, over a period of nearly two decades, to cover up the real circumstances of Mrs. Stanford’s death.

The Leland Stanford Junior University

The Leland Stanford Junior University
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Total Pages : 41
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:222098529
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Synopsis The Leland Stanford Junior University by : Stanford University

Sur Plusieurs Beaux Sujects

Sur Plusieurs Beaux Sujects
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 140
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ISBN-10 : 0804715491
ISBN-13 : 9780804715492
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Synopsis Sur Plusieurs Beaux Sujects by : Wallace Stevens

Presents Stevens' notebooks containing excerpts from his reading, his comments and aphorisms.

Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University

Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 394
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ISBN-10 : 9781324004349
ISBN-13 : 1324004347
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Synopsis Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University by : Richard White

Named One of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 by the Los Angeles Times A premier historian penetrates the fog of corruption and cover-up still surrounding the murder of a Stanford University founder to establish who did it, how, and why. In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband’s death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into eccentricity and public controversy for more than a decade. In 1905 she was murdered in Hawaii, a victim, according to the Honolulu coroner’s jury, of strychnine poisoning. With her vast fortune the university’s lifeline, the Stanford president and his allies quickly sought to foreclose challenges to her bequests by constructing a story of death by natural causes. The cover-up gained traction in the murky labyrinths of power, wealth, and corruption of Gilded Age San Francisco. The murderer walked. Deftly sifting the scattered evidence and conflicting stories of suspects and witnesses, Richard White gives us the first full account of Jane Stanford’s murder and its cover-up. Against a backdrop of the city’s machine politics, rogue policing, tong wars, and heated newspaper rivalries, White’s search for the murderer draws us into Jane Stanford’s imperious household and the academic enmities of the university. Although Stanford officials claimed that no one could have wanted to murder Jane, we meet several people who had the motives and the opportunity to do so. One of these, we discover, also had the means.