WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. -- Mrs. Leland Stanford gave a luncheon to-day, at which covers were laid for fourteen. The cloth was of fine white linen, with a deep insertion and edge of old rose point ...

W hen Leland and Jane Stanford bought a Santa Clara County horse farm in 1876, they were upholding an aristocratic tradition of placid living away from the city’s multitudes. They were also ...

The Leland Stanford Mansion was the ornate Victorian home of the railroad magnate who made his fortune in large part by bilking American taxpayers and was also, from 1862 through 1863, the eighth ...