Description Jane Stanford, the co-founder of Stanford University, died in Honolulu in 1905, shortly after surviving strychnine poisoning in San Francisco.
His historical writing includes The Tin Box: Keepsakes of a Civil War General (1999) and Red Mountain: The Rise and Fall of a Magnesite Mining Empire, 1900-1947 (2001).. was a Stanford Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences.
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About the Author The late Robert W.
Stanford\'s death.
Jordan went to great lengths, over a period of nearly two decades, to cover up the real circumstances of Mrs.
He concludes that Dr.
Jordan enjoyed honorable and distinguished careers.
His research reveals that the professionals who were denounced by Dr.
Stanford indeed died of strychnine poisoning.
Jordan\'s claim and to show that Mrs.
In this book, the author reviews the medical reports in detail to refute Dr.
Jordan\'s diagnosis was largely accepted and promulgated in many subsequent historical accounts.
Stanford had died of heart disease, a claim that he supported by challenging the skills and judgment of the Honolulu physicians and toxicologist.
Stanford University President David Starr Jordan promptly issued a press release claiming that Mrs.
The inquest testimony of the physicians who attended her Death in Hawaii led to a coroner\'s jury verdict of murder--by strychnine poisoning.
Description Jane Stanford, the co-founder of Stanford University, died in Honolulu in 1905, shortly after surviving strychnine poisoning in San Francisco
