who started stanford university and why
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Stanford University The university was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who had died of typhoid fever at age 15 the previous year. Stanford was a former Governor of California and U.S. Senator; he made his fortune as a railroad tycoon.
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About Stanford Stanford Hospital was founded in 1959 as the Palo Alto-Stanford Hospital Center and, today, is the only Level-1 trauma center between San Francisco and San Jose. It has 613 licensed beds, 49 operating rooms, about 1,500 faculty physicians and more than 1,000 interns and residents.
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- On March 3, 1931, President Herbert Hoover signed a law that made The Star-Spangled Banner, based on an 1814 poem by Francis Scott Key (1779-1843), America's national anthem. After attending Quaker schools, Hoover became part of the first class to enter Stanford University when it opened in 1891.
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Who founded Google? Google was founded in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University, in California. Together, they own about 14 percent of its shares and control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock.
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Quinnipiac University What became Quinnipiac University was founded in 1929 by Samuel W. Tator, a business professor and politician. Phillip Troup, a Yale College graduate, was another founder, and became its first president until his death in 1939.
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FAQ The account of their visit with Charles W. Eliot at Harvard is actually recounted by Eliot himself in a letter sent to David Starr Jordan (Stanford's first president) on 1919 Jun 26. At the point the Stanfords met with Eliot they had not yet decided whether to establish a university, a technical school or a museum.
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- Jane married Leland Stanford, a young lawyer, on September 30, 1850. The Stanfords made their first home together in Port Washington, Wisconsin, where Leland had established a law practice. But in 1852, a fire destroyed Leland's office and extensive library.
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List of land-grant universities Founded in 1866 as the Lincoln Institute by members of the 62nd and 65th United States Colored Infantry, under the Morrill Act of 1890, Lincoln was designated by Missouri as a land-grant university for black students. It integrated in 1956.
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Who founded Harvard University? Harvard was initially founded by Puritan immigrants to train more  clergy. In 1639 it was renamed Harvard Colledge in tribute  to John Harvard, a clergyman who willed 400 books to the school  upon his death.   The university was expected to prepare young men for the ministry.
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Columbia University Established originally by the Massachusetts legislature and soon thereafter named for John Harvard (its first benefactor), Harvard is the United States' oldest institution of higher learning, and the Harvard Corporation (formally, the President and Fellows of Harvard College) is its first chartered corporation.
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Leland Stanford On September 30, 1850, Stanford married Jane Elizabeth Lathrop in Albany. She was the daughter of Dyer Lathrop, a merchant of that city, and Jane Anne (Shields) Lathrop. The couple did not have any children for years, but their son, Leland Stanford, Jr. , was born in 1868 when his father was forty-four.
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- Johns Hopkins: The University's Founder. Johns Hopkins was born in 1795. He inherited his unusual first name from his grandfather, who was named after Johns' great grandmother, Margaret Johns. When Johns was 17, his mother sent him off to Baltimore to work for his uncle, a wholesale grocer.
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Resources on Yale History: A Brief History of Yale Yale University had its beginnings with the founding of the New Haven Colony in 1638 by a band of 500 Puritans who fled from persecution in Anglican England. It was the dream of the Reverend John Davenport, the religious leader of the colony, to establish a theocracy and a college to educate its leaders.
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John D. Rockefeller Rockefeller was also the founder of both the University of Chicago and Rockefeller University and funded the establishment of Central Philippine University in the Philippines.
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Memorial Church Stanford Memorial Church. Stanford Memorial Church stands at the center of the campus, and is the University’s architectural crown jewel. It was one of the earliest, and is still among the most prominent, interdenominational churches in the West. Jane Stanford built the church as a memorial to her husband, Leland.
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Stanford Memorial Church Stanford Memorial Church. Stanford Memorial Church (also referred to informally as MemChu) is located on the Main Quad at the center of the Stanford University campus in Stanford, California, United States. It was built during the American Renaissance by Jane Stanford as a memorial to her husband Leland.
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About UCLA UCLA was founded in 1919 as the Southern Branch of the University of California, with a campus on Vermont Avenue. The Westwood campus opened in 1929. UCLA is now one of 10 UC campuses.
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Stanford Memorial Church Stanford Memorial Church (also referred to informally as MemChu) is located on the Main Quad at the center of the Stanford University campus in Stanford, California, United States. It was built during the American Renaissance by Jane Stanford as a memorial to her husband Leland.
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- The Internet, of course, is central to the story of Silicon Valley. Google, the web’s most popular search engine and one of the world’s most influential companies, got its start at Stanford when Sergey Brin and Larry Page developed their page rank algorithm as graduate students in the 1990s.
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The Campus Plan In 1885, a year and a half after the death of their only child, Jane and Leland Stanford executed a deed of trust conveying the farm, along with several other parcels of land, to the trustees for the founding of the Leland Stanford Junior University.
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Herbert Hoover By 1920, Hoover and his family had returned to his alma mater, building a handsome house on the Stanford campus. However, in 1921, President-Elect Warren Harding recruited Hoover to become secretary of commerce.
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The Basics Where is Stanford? Silicon Valley. Located 35 miles south of San Francisco and 20 miles north of San Jose, Stanford University is in the heart of Northern California’s dynamic Silicon Valley,” home to Yahoo!, Google, Hewlett-Packard, and many other cutting-edge companies that were started by and continue to be led by Stanford alumni and faculty.
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- American educator, publicist, and political figure who (with Jane Addams) shared the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1931 and served as president of Columbia University from 1901 to 1945....
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Herbert Hoover The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a remarkable organization that was founded by an extraordinary individual, Herbert Hoover. Orphaned at the age of ten, at seventeen, Hoover joined four hundred students at Stanford University for inaugural ceremonies that opened the university on October 1, 1891.
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Facebook A brief history of Facebook. Sarah Phillips reports on the development of Facebook, from a Harvard social-networking website to a global internet phenomenon. Sarah Phillips. Wednesday 25 July 2007 05.29 EDT First published on Wednesday 25 July 2007 05.29 EDT. Mark Zuckerberg, 23, founded Facebook while studying psychology at Harvard University.
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- Confidence votes 14. Harvard was founded as a result of Rev. George Phillips's desire to reproduce in the New World what he most loved in the old one: Cambridge University. George was a graduate of Gonville and Caius college, Cambridge and was a buddy of Winthrop in England. He arrived in Massachusetts with Gov. Winthrop's fleet.