Editing Leland Stanford (section)

==Personal life and death==
On September 30, 1850, Stanford married [[Jane Stanford|Jane Elizabeth Lathrop]] in Albany, New York. She was the daughter of Dyer Lathrop, a merchant of that city, and Jane Anne (Shields) Lathrop.<ref name="DictAmBio502" /> The couple did not have any children for years, until their only child, a son, [[Leland Stanford Jr.|Leland DeWitt Stanford]], was born in 1868 when his father was forty-four.<ref name="stanford-jane">{{cite web |title=Jane Stanford: The woman behind Stanford University |url=http://janestanford.stanford.edu/biography.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160521025646/http://janestanford.stanford.edu/biography.html |archive-date=May 21, 2016 |access-date=June 14, 2016 |publisher=Stanford University}}</ref>

Stanford was an active [[Freemason]] from 1850 to 1855, joining the Prometheus Lodge No. 17 in [[Port Washington, Wisconsin]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Famous men members of Masonic Lodges |url=https://pub.acgl.eu/index.php/freemasonry/information |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117142833/https://pub.acgl.eu/index.php/freemasonry/information |archive-date=November 17, 2018 |website=American Canadian Grand Lodge ACGL}}</ref> After moving west, he became a member of the Michigan City Lodge No. 47 in [[Michigan City, California|Michigan Bluff, California]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Denslow |first1=William |title=10,000 Famous Freemasons |volume=IV |date=June 15, 2007 |orig-year=1957 |publisher=Cornerstone Book Publishers |location=New Orleans |isbn=978-1-887560-06-1 |page=390}}</ref> He was also a member of the [[Independent Order of Odd Fellows|Independent Order of Odd Fellows in California]].[[File:Residence of Governor Stanford, Palo Alto, California, 1888 (LAROCHE 12).jpeg|thumb|The Stanford residence in Palo Alto, 1888|left]]
The Stanfords retained ownership of their mansion in Sacramento, where their only son was born in 1868. Now the [[Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park]], the house museum is also used for California state social occasions. The Stanfords' home in San Francisco's [[Nob Hill]] district was destroyed in the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]]; the site is now occupied by the [[Stanford Court Hotel]]. The Stanford residence at the Palo Alto Stock Farm became a convalescent home for children in 1919 (the forerunner of the [[Lucille Packard Children's Hospital]]) and was torn down in 1965.<ref>{{cite web |title=History, Mission and Values |url=https://www.lpch.org/aboutus/HistoryAndMission/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130801171153/https://www.lpch.org/aboutus/HistoryAndMission/index.html |archive-date=August 1, 2013 |website=Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Jane L. Stanford: Timeline |url=http://janestanford.stanford.edu/timeline.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141004020713/http://janestanford.stanford.edu/timeline.html |archive-date=October 4, 2014 |publisher=Stanford University}}</ref>

Long-suffering from [[locomotor ataxia]], Leland Stanford died of heart failure at home in [[Palo Alto, California]], on June 21, 1893.<ref>{{cite magazine| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Q0-AQAAMAAJ&q=leland+stanford+locomotor+ataxia&pg=PA403| title=Leland Stanford| magazine=Kate Field's Washington| volume=7| issue=26| date=June 28, 1893| page=403}}</ref> He was buried in the [[Stanford Mausoleum|family mausoleum]] on the Stanford campus. [[Jane Stanford]] died in 1905 after being [[Strychnine poisoning|poisoned with strychnine]].<ref name=NatCycofAmBio /><ref name="DictAm"/>