Jane Stanford
(1828-1905)
Co-founder of Stanford University
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Jane Lathrop Stanford (August 25, 1828 – February 28, 1905) was a co-founder of Stanford University in 1885 (opened 1891) along with her husband, Leland Stanford, as a memorial to their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who died in 1884 at the age of 15. After her husband's death in 1893, she funded and operated the university almost single-handedly until her death in 1905.
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25 August 1828 Albany, New York
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| Died |
28 February 1905 (aged 76)
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| Zodiac | Virgo |
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