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.
Amasa Leland Stanford (March 9, 1824 â June 21, 1893) was an American tycoon, industrialist, politician and founder of Stanford University. Migrating to California from New York at the time of the Gold Rush, he became a successful merchant and wholesaler, and continued to build his business empire.