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.
Leland Stanford (1824-93) was one of the most prominent men of his time in America: He was a very wealthy railroad magnate who built the Central Pacific Railroad (and drove the gold spike to symbolize the completion of the first.