For more information on the US trauma system, trauma facilities in your area, and traumatic injuries please refer to the following websites. 1  American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. 2  Florida Department of Health Trauma Program.
With his wife Jane, Stanford founded Leland Stanford Junior University as a memorial for their only child, Leland Stanford, Jr. , who died as a teenager of typhoid fever in Florence, Italy, in 1884 while on a trip to Europe.
In 1861, the year Leland became president of the Central Pacific Railroad and won his campaign for governor of California, the Stanfords acquired a much larger house in Sacramento at Eighth and N Streets. Jane was left to manage the move into the new house and furnish it appropriately.