Born in his father’s East Coast backwoods bar, dying in a magnificent West Coast mansion built from his self-made fortune. Condemned as the complete robber-baron, consecrated as a singular titan of ...

On May 11, 1869, Leland Stanford, president of the Central Pacific Railroad Co., sent a telegram from Promontory Summit, Utah, to his business partner Collis Huntington that read: “The Rails Connected ...

It’s almost impossible to image what Oakland would look like today if the Western terminus of the Transcontinental Railroad hadn’t been established here in 1869. Where there had once been marshy ...

“What a life!”: Robber baron, technologist, teetotaler (and winemaker), politician, founder of Stanford University….some of the many facets of Leland Stanford’s life and legacy. (Courtesy of the ...

Dyer Lathrop was a man of significant accomplishments, an Albany merchant and philanthropist who helped found the Albany Orphan Asylum. But his daughter's marriage to railroad tycoon Leland Stanford ...

Much like his future partners, Leland Stanford remade himself in gold rush California as a shopkeeper. In 1852, fed up with lawyering, he left the Midwest to become a partner in a wholesale grocery ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jane Stanford was a monstrous mess. The wife of railroad baron Leland Stanford, Jane was rich, duplicitous and convinced that God ...