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.  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] 