Leland Stanford Jr. (May 14, 1868 in Sacramento, California-March 13, 1884 in Paris, France), Leland DeWitt Stanford until age nine, was the only child of Governor Leland Stanford of California and his wife Jane Stanford and is the namesake of Stanford University in the United States.
Leland, Jr. caught typhoid two months before his sixteenth birthday, while on a Grand Tour of Europe. He originally fell ill in what was then Constantinople; though his family rushed him to Florence, Italy for medical treatment, he died shortly thereafter. After they returned to the United States, his parents devoted their fortune to a memorial, Leland Stanford Junior University, in his honor. He is interred beside his parents at the Stanford family mausoleum on the Stanford campus.
