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M E M O R I A L
Upon the Death of
J A N E L A T H R O P S T A N F O R D
Adopted the Eighteenth Day of March, A. D. 1905. By
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.

The honored life of Jane Lathrop Stanford is closed. After
years of loneliness and sorrow, of singlehearted devotion and
sacrifice, she saw at last her beloved University fully equipp-
ed and endowed for its great mission, the noblest monument ever
erected by parental love. Her busy mind was still forming new
plans and hopes for its future, when she met her death. Her
name and work will live, and it is fitting that those whom she
selected to maintain what she had built, and who have been es-
pecially honored by her friendship and confidence, should pub-
licly declare their knowledge of her nobility of character,
her efforts and her success.

In 1885 Mrs. Stanford joined with her husband in executing
the founding grant of the Leland Stanford Junior University
in memory of their only son whose name it bears. Her husband's
death in 1893 left the work barely begun, and added to her
grief the crushing burden of responsibilities such as her
sheltered life had never known. She bravely took up the load.
Her strength and skill grew with her task and were equal to
each occasion. "Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and
true", for ten years she directed the business affairs of the
University, planned and superintended the erection of its
buildings, and moulded its academic policy. She guided it
through crippling legal entanglements, through embarrassing
internal dissensions, and through dark days of financial de-