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.
Stanford White Facts. The American architect Stanford White (1853-1906), a partner in the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White, was noted for his decorative inventiveness. Stanford White was born on Nov. 9, 1853, in New York City. His father, Richard Grant White, was a distinguished Shakespearean scholar and a music and drama critic. At the age of 19 Stanford became an apprentice in the architectural office of Gambrill and Richardson, where he met Charles Follen McKim.