Jessie Stanford (1877 - 1969)

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Angela Rene Stanford (maiden name)

Added: Feb 13, 2018

1955 Kodiak Naval High School

Added: Nov 23, 2014

Walter & Loren (Terry) Stanford

Added: Feb 23, 2014

Walter and Dorothy (Krauser) Stanford, Jr.

Added: Feb 21, 2014

Mary (Nicholson) & William Stanford family

Added: Feb 20, 2014

Elzie Byron Cornett, Sr. & friends

Added: Feb 28, 2013

Stanford Family Men, 1931

Added: Sep 02, 2012

Stanford Family Man, 1931

Added: Sep 02, 2012

Juanita Elrod, 1932 Georgia, Spring Place School

Added: Dec 28, 2011

Leland Stanford - Founder Stanford University

Added: Aug 24, 2011

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In 1877, in the year that Jessie Stanford was born, on March 2nd, the U.S. presidential election of 1876 was ended with the selection of Rutherford B. Hayes as the winner. Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote in November 1876 but 20 votes in the electoral college were in dispute. An informal agreement was made in which Hayes agreed to remove federal troops from South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana, ending Reconstruction in the South. So, on March 4th, Rutherford B. Hayes became the 19th President of the United States.

In 1903, Jessie was 26 years old when the Harley-Davidson Motor Company was begun by two childhood friends, William Harley and Arthur Davidson - with help from Arthur's brother, Walter. Their first prototype - a "motor-bicycle" - couldn't climb hills without also pedaling, so they went back to the drawing board, and in 1904 their new version came in 4th in a race. Harley-Davidson and Indian Motorcycle Manufacturing Company were the only two major motorcycle companies to survive the Great Depression.

In 1931, at the age of 54 years old, Jessie was alive when in March, “The Star Spangled Banner” officially became the national anthem by congressional resolution. Other songs had previously been used - among them, "My Country, 'Tis of Thee", "God Bless America", and "America the Beautiful". There was fierce debate about making "The Star Spangled Banner" the national anthem - Southerners and veterans organizations supported it, pacifists and educators opposed it.

In 1950, Jessie was 73 years old when in February, Joe McCarthy gave a speech alleging that he had a list of "members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring" who worked in the State Department. He went on to chair a committee that investigated not only the State Department but also the administration of President Harry S. Truman, the Voice of America, and the U.S. Army for communist spies - until he was condemned by the U.S. Senate in 1954.

In 1969, in the year of Jessie Stanford's passing, in August, a previously planned small concert turned into a (free) more than 400,000 strong gathering of attendees and bands at Max Yasgur's farm in upstate New York - now called Woodstock. Just some of the 32 acts: Richie Havens, Joe Cocker, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Joan Baez, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe, Santana, The Band, and Sly and the Family Stone.