One member of this family forced Edward Alsworth Ross to resign after his speech calling for America to turn its guns on any vessel bringing immigrants to its shores, because eugenics- advocate Ross believed it would lead to "race suicide.
One member of this family forced Edward Alsworth Ross to resign after his speech calling for America to turn its guns on any vessel bringing immigrants to its shores, because eugenics- advocate Ross believed it would lead to "race suicide." That member of this family actually died of strychnine poisoning at the Moana Hotel in Waikiki, but many claimed her death was covered up by her rival David Starr Jordan. A better-known member of this family joined Collis Huntington, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker in a certain group which hired Theodore Judah for a project. That man owned a horse named Sallie Gardner that was photographed by Eadweard Muybridge. That man, a member of the so-called "Big Four," presided over the ceremony at Promontory Point where a golden spike was driven to mark the first transcontinental railroad.For 10 points, give the last name of that Governor of California, a tycoon who founded a university in Palo Alto.
One member of this family forced Edward Alsworth Ross to resign after his speech calling for America to turn its guns on any vessel bringing immigrants to its shores, because eugenics- advocate Ross believed it would lead to "race suicide.
Stanford [accept either Jane Stanford or Amasa Leland Stanford]