— Malcolm HarrisThe way Jane Stanford confided in Goebel made her lack of faith obvious, and by 1905 she was ready to act. William James was coming to campus, and if the president didn’t like it, then maybe it was time for the school to find its second leader. But Jane Stanford never got to administer her final remedy. On February 28, 1905, she was poisoned to death.
Replicated under Fair Use from Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris.