Stanford University and Thereabouts (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Stanford University and Thereabouts Leland Stanford was born at Watervliet, near Albany, New York, March 9, 1824. His father was a public-spirited farmer, who added to his regular occupation road and bridge building, and finally railroad grading in the infant days of railroad building in the State. Young Leland grew up on the farm, with the usual succession of farm duties and district schooling, and at twenty-two went to Albany to study law. His law studies completed, he turned to the West for a start in his profession and settled at Port Washington, a frontier town of Wisconsin. After four years of steady work, nearly all his worldly possessions, including his law library, were destroyed by fire. This was in 1852. The California fever was then at its height, and unexpectedly adrift, he gravitated naturally to the Golden State, where three brothers had already preceded him. With them he entered into extensive mercantile operations in Sacramento and the adjacent mining country, and in the course of the next eight years amassed the comfortable fortune of a quarter of a million dollars. In 1860, he was chosen a delegate to the convention that nominated Lincoln, afterward witnessed the inauguration, and remained in Washington some weeks, holding frequent consultations with the President regarding Pacific Coast affairs. From Washington he went to Albany for a long visit, and with the half-formed intention of settling down for life in the old home. But he soon discovered that his deepest interests were in California, and in midsummer he returned to find himself already nominated for Governor by the new Republican party. He was triumphantly elected, and in the trying days of the Civil War was able to render material aid to the cause of the Union. Before his term of office expired, he became deeply interested in the project of a transcontinental railway, and, declining a renomination, threw all his energies into the project of the Central Pacific Railroad. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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