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England, to obtain the support of the govern- ment in behalf of the colony, which was in a wretched state, owing to the treachery of the '• merchant adventurers " in London, but on ac-

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count of the plague in London, he was obliged to return. In 1635 he commanded a vessel and attacking party in an effort to compel the sur- render of the French at Penobscot, but failed in the attempt. He was twice married, first to Rose, who died, Jan. 29, 1621, and secondly to Barbara. He had four sons, Alexander, Myles, Josias and Charles. He removed to Captain'3 Hill, Duxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1032, where a granite monument was erected to his memory. He died in Duxbury, Mass., Oct. 3, 1656.

STANFORD, Jane Lalhrop, philanthropist, was born in Albany. N.Y.. Aug. 25, 1828; daugh- ter of Byev and Jane (An) Lathrop of Albany, N.Y. ; granddaughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Shields) Lathrop, and descendant of John La- throp, Norwich, Conn., Presbyterian minister. Daniel Shields (a Scotchman) fought in the Revo- lutionary war under General Lafayette, entering as a drummer boy and leaving as a captain. Jane Lathrop was married, September 30, 1850, to Leland Stanford (q.v.) and became a social leader in 1861, when her husband was elected governor of California. With Mr. Stanford she established the Leland Stanford Junior university in memory of her only son, who died in 1884. The university was opened in October, 1891, and after lier husband's death, she devoted her at- tention to its development. Slie built the Chil- dren's hospital at Albany, N.Y., at a cost of $100,000 and gave it an endowment of $100,000. Her gifts to Leland Stanford Junior university include a library building costing $150,000, a natural history museum and laboratory, a memo- rial chapel, a girls' dormitory, and a building for the chemical department (1894). In 1897 she gave to the trustees, by deed to take effect at her death, her mansion on Knob Hill, San Francisco, with all its furnishings, to be used for a school of history, economics and social science. In 1899 she deeded her entire remaining prop- IX. — 30

erty, valued at $38,000,000, to the university, and in 1903 resigned tlie control of the university (as vested in her by the original grant) to the board of trustees, of which she was subsequently elected president.

STANFORD, Leland, senator, was born in Watervliet, Albany county, N.Y., March 9, 1824; son of Josiah and Elizabeth Stanford, and a descendant of early settlers in the Moliawk val- ley. His father, a prosperous contractor, en- gaged in the con- struction of the Al- bany Central, one of the earliest railroads in the United States. Leland attended the county schools, and Cazenovia college, N.Y., and studied law with the firm of Hadly and Wheaton, and practised in Al- bany, N.Y., and at Port Washington, Wis., 1847-52. He was married, Sept. 30, 1850, to Jane,

daughter of Dyer Lathrop of Albany. N.Y". He abandoned his profession in 1852 and joined his brothers in the mercantile business in California. He founded an independent business in Sacra- mento, Cal., and became one of the most success- ful merchants on the Pacific coast. He was a ilelegate to the Republican convention held in Chicago that nominated Abraham Lincoln for the Presidency in 1800, and in 1861 lie was elected governor of California and served till 1863, when he resigned. He was president of the Central Pacific railroad company, and in 1869 be drove the last spike of the road from Ogden to San Francisco, thus making a continuous route across the continent. He was also president of the Occidental and Oriental Steamship company which ran in connection with the Central Pacific system. On the death of his only son, Leland, in Florence, Italy, in 1884, he set apart ^20.000.000 for establishing the Leland Stanford Junior uni- versity at Palo Alto, Cal., to his memory. He was elected U.S. senator from California in 1884 and re-elected in 1890, serving, 1885-93, and upon his death in 1893, George Clement Perkins was appointed to his seat, taking it, Aug. 8. 1898. Senator Stanford was chairman of the commit- tee on public buildings and public grounds and a member of six other committees. He died at Palo Alto, Cal., June 21, 1893.

STANFORD, Richard, representative, was born in Dorchester county, near Vienna. Md., March 2, 1767 ; son of Richard Stanford, and a descend-