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Condolence letters re: death of Leland Stanford: Mad- Men includes Jerome Madden, O.B. Mahone, and Margaretta Manning

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RECEIVED at Menlo Park Cal June [21], 189[3]

Dated Chicago Ill 21

To Mrs Leland Stanford Menlo Park

Mrs Markham joins me in extending to you our deepest sympathy would that we could say something that would comfort you in this hour of grief you have lost a loving husband the state a great benefactor and the nation a magnificent specimen of American manhood

H H Markham

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H H Markham

Henry Harrison Markham (1840-1923) was Governor of California at the time Stanford University first opened and when Leland Stanford died. Markham was born in New York state, moved to Wisconsin where he enlisted during the Civil War and rose to the rank of second lieutenant, then returned to Wisconsin to study law. He passed the Wisconsin bar in 1867, practiced in Milwaukee until 1869 when he and his family moved to Pasadena. He practiced law there, was on the school board, served one term as U.S. Representative from California (1885-1887), and one term as California Governor (1891-1895).

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Jane Lathrop Stanford Papers

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Condolence letters re: death of Leland Stanford: Mad- Men includes Jerome Madden, O.B. Mahone, and Margaretta Manning

Untitled Page 15

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