Comments on: Stanford University History – Gingham Dress https://conradaskland.com/blog/stanford-university-history-gingham-dress/ Music Director and Music Technology Tue, 29 Dec 2020 11:47:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: ORHAN ARSEL https://conradaskland.com/blog/stanford-university-history-gingham-dress/#comment-1317804 Tue, 29 Dec 2020 11:47:29 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2007/08/stanford-university-history-gingham-dress/#comment-1317804 Just a little background to the story:

The Stanfords had travelled to Turkey (actually the Ottoman Empire at that time) by the invitation of Sultan Abdulhamid II. who wanted the construction of Hejaz railway connecting Istanbul-Damasqus-Amman and Medina, and Leland Stanford Sr. being a prominent railroad magnate, was consulted, maybe even offered the rights to the project. His son probably caught the typhoid fever in Istanbul. And sadly passed away on the trip back.

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