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    the grandfather of Charles Crocker, William Willard Crocker, Helen Crocker (Russell) and Ethel Mary Crocker (de Limur). Mount Crocker is named in his honor...
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    child. Crocker was survived by three children: Mary Crocker (who would later marry the congressman Francis Burton Harrison), Charles Templeton Crocker (who...
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  • Crocker (1864–1941) Charles Crocker (1822-1888) Charles Frederick Crocker (1854-1897) Mary Crocker (1881–1905) Charles Templeton Crocker (1884–1948) Jennie...
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    Representative Men of the Central Pacific Railroad, with Charles Crocker's older brother Judge Edwin B. Crocker (1818–1875), who served as the CPRR attorney from...
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    Crocker-Amazon is a neighborhood in San Francisco that borders the Excelsior District. Crocker-Amazon covers the area south of Mission Street and Geneva...
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    the president of Crocker National Bank. Crocker was born on January 19, 1861, in Sacramento, California. His father, Charles Crocker (1822-1888), one...
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  • paired with the last name Crocker, in honor of William Crocker, a Washburn Crosby Company director. The portrait of Betty Crocker was first commissioned...
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  • for his son William Henry Crocker. The bank was renamed Crocker Woolworth National Bank, later Crocker National Bank. Crocker National merged with the...
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    Aimée Isabella Crocker (December 5, 1864 – February 7, 1941) was an American mystic, Bohemian, author, and member of the wealthy Crocker family. She was...
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    value of the property. (Crocker had wanted to buy the whole block.) The neighbor was a German undertaker called Nicolas Yung; Crocker was unsuccessful in...
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  • Baptiste Charbonneau William D. Bradshaw Charles Crocker Alonzo Delano George Washington Dennis Charles S. Fairfax Thomas Fallon Joseph Libbey Folsom John...
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    Episcopalian bishop Henry John Whitehouse and railroad robber baron Charles Crocker, who was among the founders of the Central Pacific Railroad. Whitehouse...
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    met with Collis P. Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins Jr. and Charles Crocker to obtain financial backing. Papers were filed to incorporate the new...
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  • Henry Joseph Crocker II (July 2, 1893 – May 23, 1958) was an American journalist and occasional film actor. Although Crocker was for most of his career...
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    western railroading (along with Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker) who invested in Theodore Judah's idea to build the Central Pacific...
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  • Crocker is a surname shared by several notable real and fictional people, among them being: In Australia Sir Walter Crocker (1902–2002), Australian diplomat...
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    Edwin Bryant Crocker (26 April 1818 – 24 June 1875) was a California Supreme Court Justice and founder of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California...
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    (steel) – Pittsburgh and New York Jay Cooke (finance) – Philadelphia Charles Crocker (railroads) – California Edward L. Doheny (oil) – California Daniel...
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    (1821–1900), Vice President; Mark Hopkins, (1813–1878), Treasurer; Charles Crocker, (1822–1888), Construction Supervisor. All became substantially wealthy...
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  • Reno portrays Agent Johnny, Guillermo Navarro portrays Pastor, and Charles Crocker portrays Thumb People. "I didn't want any guns or violence. I wanted...
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    They formed the Central Pacific Railroad along with Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, and Collis Huntington in 1861. Hopkins was born in Henderson, Jefferson...
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    African, and Oceanic art. The Crocker Art Museum is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. Edwin B. Crocker (1818–1875), a wealthy California...
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    earthquake and fire, except for the granite walls surrounding the Stanford, Crocker, Huntington and Hopkins mansions. These walls remain and black scars caused...
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    railway magnate Charles Crocker. His three siblings were William Henry Crocker, Harriet Crocker Alexander, and Charles Frederick Crocker. Following his...
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    Stanford was elected as its president. The other three associates were Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins, and Collis P. Huntington. The Central Pacific's first...
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    Charles Templeton Crocker (September 2, 1884 – December 12, 1948) was an American philanthropist, art patron and yachtsman. He was a past president of...
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  • great-great grandfather was Samuel Charles Bugbee, an architect whose works included the homes of Leland Stanford and Charles Crocker and the Mendocino Presbyterian...
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    1933–34. Charles Whitehouse was a great-grandson of railroad executive Charles Crocker, and a grandson of Charles Beatty Alexander and Harriet Crocker. He...
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    Sacramento in 1863 and was financed by "The Big Four"—Mark Hopkins, Charles Crocker, Collis P. Huntington, and Leland Stanford. Both the American and especially...
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    merchants were Leland Stanford, Collis P. Huntington, Mark Hopkins and Charles Crocker, Sacramento area businessmen (later known as the Big Four) who financed...
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