1. Leland Stanford was buried in the family mausoleum on the Stanford campus.
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3. Leland Stanford was an active freemason from 1850 to 1855, joining the Prometheus Lodge No 17 in Port Washington, Wisconsin.
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4. Leland Stanford had ideas of employee ownership for more than thirty years before giving them expression in his plans for Stanford University, proposals as a Senator, and in interviews with the news media.
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5. Leland Stanford served for four years as chairman of the US Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and served on the Naval Committee.
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9. Leland Stanford was chosen as a delegate to the Republican Party convention which selected US presidential electors in both 1856 and 1860.
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13. Leland Stanford moved with his family from Sacramento to San Francisco in 1874, where he assumed presidency of the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company, the steamship line to Japan and China associated with the Central Pacific.
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16. Leland Stanford was a director of Wells Fargo and Company from 1870 to January 1884.
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21. Leland Stanford was born in 1824 in what was then Watervliet, New York.
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