Charles Frederick Crocker

Charles Frederick Crocker (December 26, 1854 – July 17, 1897) was vice president of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company.[1][2]

Charles Frederick Crocker
Born(1854-12-26)December 26, 1854
Sacramento, California
DiedJuly 17, 1897(1897-07-17) (aged 42)
San Mateo, California
OccupationRailroad leader
SpouseJennie Mills Easton (1858–1887)
ChildrenMary Crocker (1881–1905)
Charles Templeton Crocker (1884–1948)
Jennie Adeline Crocker (1887–1974)

Biography

He was born in Sacramento on December 26, 1854, the eldest son of Mary Ann and Charles Crocker.[1][2] He was educated in Sacramento public schools, graduated from Oakland Military Academy in 1872 and attended the Brooklyn Polytechnic School (1875), but did not graduate as a result of poor eyesight.[2]

After taking a trip to Japan, Crocker entered the family railroad business at the age of 22 as a clerk in the Fourth and Townsend Streets office of Southern Pacific.[2] When George C. Perkins was elected governor in 1879, he appointed Crocker as a colonel in the National Guard.[2] By 1888, Crocker was president of the San Joaquin and Sierra Nevada Railroad.[3]

Crocker purchased the 'Uplands' estate (then part of San Mateo and later incorporated into Hillsborough) from William Henry Howard in 1894.[4] Crocker died at 'Uplands' on July 17, 1897, from complications of Bright's Disease following a brief, acute paralysis.[2] His wife, the former Jennie Marine Easton, had died during the birth of their third child.[2]

Legacy

Crocker was survived by three children: Mary Crocker (who would later marry the congressman Francis Burton Harrison), Charles Templeton Crocker (who became a noted scientist),[5] and Jennie Adeline Crocker.

Crocker was notably active in public affairs, serving as one of the Regents of the University of California (appointed in 1888 by Governor Waterman), as president of the California Academy of Sciences, and as a trustee of Stanford University.[2]

Family members

Crocker's brothers were banker and investor William H. Crocker, president of the Crocker Bank and George Crocker, second vice-president of the Southern Pacific Railroad. His cousin was the mystic, princess and author Aimee Crocker. His uncle Edwin B. Crocker built Sacramento's Crocker Art Museum.

Family tree
Family of Charles Frederick Crocker
Nancy Crocker
1792–1854		Isaac Crocker
1781–1856
Mary Norton
1821–47		Edwin B. Crocker
1818–75		Margaret Rhodes
1822–1901		Mary Ann Deming
1827–89		Charles Crocker
1822–88		Clarke Crocker[lower-alpha 1]
1827–90		Henry S. Crocker[lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3]
1832–1904
Mary Norton Crocker
1846–1923		[two marriages]Edwin Clark Crocker
1856–56		Nellie Margaret Crocker
1856–79		Aimée Isabella Crocker
1864–1941		[five marriages]Henry J. Crocker[lower-alpha 4][lower-alpha 5]
1861–1912
Kate Eugenie Crocker
1854–74		James O.B. Gunn
1846–1923		Jennie Louise Crocker
1860–1939		Jacob Sloat Fassett
1853–1924
[multiple children][lower-alpha 6][multiple children][multiple children]
Emily Elizabeth Crocker
1853–53		Emma Hanchett
1855–1904		George Crocker
1856–1909		Harriet Valentine Crocker
1859–1935		Charles Beatty Alexander[lower-alpha 7]
1849–1927
Jennie Easton[lower-alpha 8]
1858–87		Charles Frederick Crocker
1854–97		Francis Crocker
1858–62		Ethel Sperry
1861–1934		William Henry Crocker
1861–1937
Mary Crocker
1881–1905		Francis Burton Harrison
1873–1957		Harriet Crocker Alexander
1888–1972		Winthrop W. Aldrich
1885–1974		[multiple children]
Helene Irwin[lower-alpha 9]
1887–1966		Charles Templeton Crocker
1884–1948		Janetta Alexander
1890–1973		Arnold Whitridge
1892–1989		Harry Crocker[lower-alpha 5]
1893–1958
Malcolm Whitman
1877–1932		Jennie Adeline Crocker
1887–1974		Robert Henderson
1877–1940		Mary Crocker Alexander
1895–1986		Sheldon Whitehouse
1883–1965
[multiple children][multiple children][one child][multiple children][multiple children][multiple children][lower-alpha 10]
Notes
  1. Married to Julia A Kimball (1830–1901)
  2. Married to Clara Ellen Swinerton (1845–1910)
  3. At least one son, Charles Henry (1865–1935)
  4. Married to Mary Virginia Ives (1863–1929)
  5. Multiple siblings (not shown)
  6. Including actress Kate McComb (1871–1959), from Mary Crocker's first marriage to Charles L. Scudder.
  7. Uncle of Eleanor Butler Roosevelt (1888–1960)
  8. Niece of Darius Ogden Mills (1825–1910)
  9. Daughter of William G. Irwin (1843–1914)
  10. Including Ambassador Charles S. Whitehouse (1921–2001), father of US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (1955–); and Sylvia Whitehouse (1930–), wife of Ambassador Robert O. Blake (1921–2015) and mother of Ambassador Robert O. Blake Jr. (1957–).
Sources
  • "Crocker Family Tree". San Mateo County Historical Association.

References
  1. "C. F. Crocker Dead. Vice President of the Southern Pacific Railway Expires in San Mateo, California". The New York Times. July 18, 1897. Retrieved 2010-02-09. Col. Charles F. Crocker, Vice President of the Southern Pacific Railway Company, died at his home here to-night. (subscription required)
  2. "Clasped in the Arms of Death". San Francisco Call. Vol. 82, no. 48. 18 July 1897. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  3. The Official Railway List. Chicago: Railway Purchasing Agent Company. 1888. p. 174.
  4. garrison, Joanne. "Jennie M. Easton, daughter of Ansel I. and Adeline Easton". Peninsula Royalty: The Founding Families of Burlingame-Hillsborough. Burlingame Historical Society. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  5. "Crocker, Noted Scientist, Dies In Home At SF". Madera Tribune. No. 113. U.P. 13 December 1948. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
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