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.
Jane married Leland Stanford, a young lawyer, on September 30, 1850. The Stanfords made their first home together in Port Washington, Wisconsin, where Leland had established a law practice. But in 1852, a fire destroyed Leland's office and extensive library.