Episode 301 Jane Stanford - Polished, Poised and Poisoned - The Death of a Child and the Birth of a University
Such An Episode! On Deck we have Jane Stanford, born Jane Lathrop out of Albany New York, she married her lawyer husband who lost everything in a fire, went west to seek his fortune in the Gold Rush and found it selling supplies to miners and settlers. When his wife joined him in San Francisco, he had become a railroad baron. Eventually they had a child and Jane doted on the boy. We won't tell you more here, but there's a death, a poisoning, a university being founded and not necessarily in that order in this powerful episode of the Family Plot Podcast!
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