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Stanford Family Papers
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Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Stanford Family papers
Identifier/Call Number: SC0033D
Physical Description:
11 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1833-1964
Language of Material:
English .
Materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original
format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the
documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the
Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
The Stanford brothers were born in the township of Watervliet in upstate New York, the sons
of Josiah and Elizabeth Stanford. Each of the brothers eventually went west to make his
fortune. Josiah and Leland Stanford remained in California and became successful
businessmen, and Thomas Welton Stanford continued on to a successful career in
Australia.
The Stanford family papers include letters, telegrams, newsclippings, photographs and
photograph albums, genealogical notes, legal and financial papers, pamphlets, and printed
materials of Josiah Stanford (1817-1890) and his wife Helen Allyne Barker Stanford
(1831-1909), Josiah Winslow Stanford (1864-1937) and his wife Alice Herrick Stanford
(1858-1940), Charles Stanford (1819-1885), Asa Philips Stanford (1821-1903), DeWitt Clinton
Stanford (1826-1864), Thomas Welton Stanford (1832-1918), Welton Stanford (1849-1922), and
Welton Stanford, Jr (1878-1947). The Thomas Welton Stanford series includes correspondence,
photographs, transcripts of his Psychic Investigation Circle of Melbourne, Australia (10
volumes) and the "HARBINGER OF LIGHT" magazine (1906-1917). The collection also includes
records of Warm Springs Ranch and the Warm Springs Hotel near San Jose, California. The
addenda 2024-598 includes the 1833 Stanford Family Bible containing family records of
births, marriages, and deaths.
[Identification of item], Stanford Family Papers (SC0033D). Dept. of Special Collections
and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Gift of Jane Lathrop Stanford, Thomas Welton Stanford, David Starr Jordan, Helen Stanford
Canfield, David H. Canfield, and others; also includes purchases.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Spiritualism.
Harbinger of Light.