After his Port Washington, Wisconsin law firm burnt down, this man headed west.  
After his Port Washington, Wisconsin law firm burnt down, this man headed west.  This man's obsession with "unsupported transit" is explored in a dual biography with an inventor by Edward Ball.  During a flood, this man had to take a boat to the swearing-in ceremony for his highest office.  This man and his wife, Jane Lathrop, were prominent art patrons.  His only son and namesake died on a field trip to excavate the ruins of Athens with Heinrich Schliemann.  This man, (*) Collis Huntington, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins formed the Big Four.  Currier &amp; Ives made lithographs of this man's horses, animals which were demonstrated to lift all of their feet off the ground in stop-motion photography done by Eadweard Muybridge.  He hired Charles Coolidge and Frederick Law Olmstead to design the landscape and buildings for a college he founded.  For 10 points, name this railroad tycoon and founder of a Palo Alto university.
After his Port Washington, Wisconsin law firm burnt down, this man headed west.  
Leland Stanford [or Amasa Leland Stanford] 