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	Charles Crocker
		Charles Crocker was born on September 16, 1822 in Troy, New York.
		Crocker concentrated all of his considerable energy on the project and his Chinese crews accomplished amazing feats under extremely arduous physical conditions.
		Charles Crocker died in the Del Monte Hotel on August 14, 1888.
	www.inn-california.com /Articles/biographic/ccrockerbio.html (955 words)

	American Experience \| Transcontinental Railroad \| People & Events
		Crocker and Strobridge soon had thousands of men at their command, and it was the Chinese men and their back-breaking work that would get the railroad through the Sierra Nevada.
		Charles Crocker was the first Central Pacific Associate to ride the completed transcontinental road, tracing his former wagon route back east.
		Charles Crocker would return three years later to a ceremonial position, which he occupied happily until his death in 1888.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/tcrr/peopleevents/p_ccrocker.html (706 words)

	Crocker Art Museum :: The Crockers
		He was the brother of Charles Crocker, one of the “Big Four” railroad barons, and acted as legal council for the Central Pacific Railroad.
		Edwin Bryant Crocker was the eldest of five children born to Isaac and Elizabeth Clark Crocker.
		Her most significant philanthropic act was to present the " Crocker Art Gallery " and the bulk of its collections to the City of Sacramento and the newly formed California Museum Association in May 1885.
	www.crockerartmuseum.org /about/history_crockers.htm (733 words)

	Omnipelagos.com ~ article "Charles Crocker"
		Charles Crocker (September 16 1822 – June 14 1888) was born in Troy, New York to a modest family.
		When he was fourteen he moved to a farm in Iowa, Crocker soon became independent, working on several farms, a sawmill, and at an iron forge.
		Crocker is buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California.
	www.omnipelagos.com /entry?n=charles_%43rocker (536 words)

	info: Charles_Crocker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Charles Crocker (September 16, 1822 â“ June 14, 1888) was born in Troy, New York to a modest family.
		Charles Crocker, California (People)Crocker was born into a modest upstate New York family in 1822.
		His father, Charles Crocker (1822-1888) wa s one of the four founders of the C.P.R.R. Co. This museum quality piece is in very good condition, with some age-related toning, creasing and staining...
	www.napoli-pizza.net /Charles_Crocker.html (959 words)

	Teledyne Technologies, Inc.
		Charles Crocker serves as Chairman of the Board and CEO of Crocker Capital, a private venture capital firm.
		Crocker has been Chairman of the Board of Children's Hospital in San Francisco, Chairman of the Hamlin School's Board of Trustees and President of the Foundation of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
		Crocker received his B.S. degree from Stanford University and an M.B.A from the University of California, Berkeley.
	www.teledyne.com /aboutus/mgtcrocker.asp (172 words)

	PBS - THE WEST - Charles Crocker
		Crocker was born into a modest upstate New York family in 1822.
		When news of the fortunes to be made in California spread across the nation, Crocker led a party of Forty-niners overland to the Pacific coast, arriving in 1850.
		In the early 1860s, the Big Four began to plan and manage the construction of the Central Pacific railroad, which was to cross the rugged Sierra Nevada mountains and meet with the Union Pacific headed west from Nebraska.
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/people/a_c/crocker.htm (396 words)

	Mercator MedSystems :: Board of Directors
		Charles Crocker is a principal of Crocker Capital, a private venture capital firm active in life sciences.
		He recently served as Chairman of the Board and CEO of BEI Technologies, Inc., a public, diversified technology company that he founded and was recently sold to Schneider Electric.
		He serves on the boards of Franklin Resources, Inc. and its subsidiaries (parent of the Franklin Templeton Funds), Pope and Talbot, Inc. and Teledyne Technologies, Inc. He is Chair of the Franklin Compensation Committee and Chair of the Pope and Talbot Audit Committee.
	www.mercatormed.com /board.html (344 words)

	Charles Crocker: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Charles Crocker is a principal of Crocker Capital, a private venture capital firm active in life sciences.
		Crocker has been Chairman of the Board of Children's Hospital in San Francisco, Chairman of the Hamlin School's Board of Trustees, President of the Foundation of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and a Trustee of the Buck Center for Research in Aging.
		Charles Crocker Charles Crocker serves as Chairman of the Board and CEO of Crocker Capital, a private venture capital firm.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Crocker_Charles_274228.htm (539 words)

	Charles Crocker, Transcontinental Railroad, Chinese Labor
		Charles Crocker was a dry goods merchant, construction chief and one of the founders of the Central Pacific Railroad
		The Charles Crocker solution for manpower during the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad's part of the Transcontinental Railroad was Chinese labor
		Charles Crocker was also one of the organizers for the Southern Pacific Railroad
	www.linecamp.com /museums/americanwest/western_names/crocker_charles/crocker_charles.html (135 words)

	Crocker Spite Fence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Crocker Spite Fence was destined to live in on San Francisco's memory from the time it was built in the 1800s by railroad baron Charles Crocker.
		Crocker, who consolidated the Southern Pacific and Central Pacific railroads, purchased all the lots on the block, but there was one holdout.
		Crocker's angry solution was to build his mansion on the available parcels and construct a tall fence around three sides of Yung's house.
	www.mistersf.com /notorious/notspitefence.htm (236 words)

	sfgenealogy.com . San Francisco History Board . Charles Crocker
		Crocker's comment to Benton about having married them the first time, etc., was pure fiction, or poor memory.
		Crocker was not president of the SPRR from 1876-1885.
		Crocker became president again in late 1874, a position he held until his death in 1888.
	www.sfgenealogy.com /boards/sfhistory/messages/649.html (441 words)

	AllRefer.com - Charles Crocker (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		There Crocker met Mark Hopkins, Hopkins's partner, Collis P. Huntington, and Leland Stanford, and with them he organized (1861) the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California.
		Crocker undertook responsibility for actual construction, completing it in 1869.
		In 1871, Crocker sold out his interest to his partners, but in the Panic of 1873 he returned as director and vice president.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Crocker.html (236 words)

	Crocker Mansion
		George Crocker was born in San Francisco in 1856, son of Charles Crocker, the builder of the Central Pacific Railroad.
		In 1888, the elder Crocker left an estate of $30 Million to his four children, with George receiving $6 Million, provided he "continuously abstained from the use of spirituous, vinous, and malt liquors" for a period of five years.
		The Crocker's maintained a townhouse at 1 East 64th Street in New York City and a summer villa in Newport.
	crockermansion.com /history/crocker.html (140 words)

	Vision, Disaster and Gift: The Centenary of the Founding of Grace Cathedral
		The William H. Crockers, prominent Grace Church parishioners, owned a city block near the crest of Nob Hill with two large mansions, their own and that of his late father Charles Crocker.
		A wag approached Bishop Potter one morning, pointed to the vast Deuxieme Empire Charles Crocker mansion and quipped, "This is Crocker's pottery!" to which the bishop replied, "You are mistaken.
		The Crockers were in New York but their butler managed to save several valuable paintings and the "Risen Christ" tapestry now in Grace Cathedral.
	www.gracecathedral.org /enrichment/crypt/cry_20060403.shtml (614 words)

	Transcontinental Railroad - Driving the Last Spike - 1869
		Leland Stanford, Collis P. Huntington, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins were the Big Four”; that conceived this enterprise and brought it to a successful ending after years of daily struggle that would have exhausted the patience and spirit of ordinary men.
		Mark Hopkins and Charles Crocker were drawn into the discussion; they all agreed that the time had come for a railroad connection with the East.
		Charles Crocker was a leading direction, and the spirit of dominant energy in pressing construction through and over all obstruction.
	www.sfmuseum.org /hist1/rail.html (554 words)

	CPRR Discussion Group - Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
		Charles Crocker's house is the great dark pile at the upper left in the photo.
		A note of interest, in the photograph of the Charles Crocker house, you will note a high wooden barrier that appears to grow out of the white house located in the center of the photograph.
		Actually, that is the 40' high "Spite Fence" Charles Crocker built around three sides of the property of one Nicholas Yung, a German undertaker who refused to sell his property to Crocker.
	cprr.org /CPRR_Discussion_Group/2005/11/william-crocker-house.html (986 words)

	Charles Crocker Document Signed "Cha. Crocker. Charles Crocker Document Signed (Lot 26505)
		Crocker signs his name on the reverse of the first page, as second vice president of the Railroad.
		Crocker was largely responsible for heading the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad, and spending exorbitant amounts of money doing so.
		Crocker's signature is a valuable and interesting part of this country's history.
	www.icollector.com /viewCatalogItem.aspx?auctionSessionid=10856&itemlotid=5422277¤tPage=17&pageSize=25 (500 words)

	Charles F
		The Charles F. Crocker was built in 1890 in Alameda, California by C.G. White as a 4-masted barkentine.
		The barkentine Charles F. Crocker was anchored at the Isthmus and believe it or nor, the silly bastards laid dynamite around her masts and they just blew the masts right out of her.
		The Crocker was afloat and free for a time and there was a proposal among boatman to tow her out.
	www.cawreckdivers.org /Wrecks/charles_f_crocker.htm (835 words)

	Charles Crocker - Encyclopedia.com
		Charles Crocker, left, watches as his son, Robert Crocker, and friend Jason Henneman play video games in the family living room in Plano, Texas.
		Crocker's new vision: Infusion of city funds will allow $78 million expansion to begin in 2007.
		Teledyne Technologies Appoints Charles Crocker to Board of Directors.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Crocker.html (467 words)

	CPRR Discussion Group - Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
		Charles Crocker's house is the great dark pile at the upper left in the photo.
		A note of interest, in the photograph of the Charles Crocker house, you will note a high wooden barrier that appears to grow out of the white house located in the center of the photograph.
		Actually, that is the 40' high "Spite Fence" Charles Crocker built around three sides of the property of one Nicholas Yung, a German undertaker who refused to sell his property to Crocker.
	www.cprr.org /CPRR_Discussion_Group/2005/11/william-crocker-house.html (986 words)

	California Artist Charles Crocker
		Charles Matthew Crocker was born in a log cabin in Belair, Illinois in 1877.
		He was from a poor family and dropped out of school in the third grade.
		Although his work includes portraits and figures, Crocker was primarily a visionary painter of landscapes.
	www.edanhughes.com /biography.cfm?ArtistID=1132 (179 words)

	Cloverdale, California bed and breakfast, -- Old Crocker Inn -- InnTravels.com
		Crocker and his cronies, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins and Collis Huntington, the empire builders known to historians as California's Big Four.
		founders of Crocker Bank, built the existing main lodge and enjoyed the property for many years as a family retreat.
		The Old Crocker Inn serves a delectable breakfast daily and gourmet dinners on weekends in the majestic dining room or on the spacious deck encircling the main lodge.
	www.inntravels.com /usa/ca/oldcrockerinn.html (302 words)

	Crocker Art Museum
		The Crocker Family and their role in Sacramento society are well documented in the remarkable Crocker Art Museum, the longest continuously operating public art museum west of the Mississippi.
		Brother Charles Crocker was one of the big four railroad barons of that era along with the likes of Mark Hopkins, Collis Huntington, and Leland Stanford.
		In 1901 the family home was donated to a rescue mission and later rescued by a Crocker daughter in 1911 and became an annex to the gallery.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/art_museums/30767 (468 words)

	Excite - Search: Charles Crocker
		Crocker became a titan in California, spearheading construction of the Central Pacific railroad and accumulating...
		Crocker and Co., a CP subsidiary founded expressly for the purpose...
		Charles Crocker, Stanford was one of the "Big Four" planning to build the eastbound section of the...
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		The family moved there in 1836, where Crocker helped to clear and cultivate the land for two years before he went to work in a sawmill and, later, at a forge for eleven dollars a month (with board).
		In 1860, he was elected to the state legislature as a member of the Republican Party, but gave up the office (and his dry-goods store) after one term to "devote himself and his money to the Pacific Railroad Enterprise" [Kraus 297].
		Crocker brought Strobridge back to work on the second transcontinental line (from Los Angeles to New Orleans) in 1877 under the condition that Strobridge would not live on the site, as he had for the first railroad, but would "organize the work and visit as often as necessary" [Kraus 298].
	www.bushong.net /dawn/about/college/ids100/biographies.shtml (0 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Crocker to Crocket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Crocker, Charles Frederick (1854-1897) — also known as Charles F. Crocker — of California.
		Crocker, Edwin Bryant (c.1823-1875) — also known as Edwin B. Crocker — of California.
		Son of Charles Crocker; brother of Charles Frederick Crocker.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/crocker.html (477 words)

	Charles Crocker (1822 - 1888) - Find A Grave Memorial
		Best known as the founder of the Central Pacific Railroad, Charles Crocker was born into a Troy, New York farm family in 1822.
		When he was fourteen, his family moved West to Iowa, where young Crocker struck out independently, doing farm, iron forge and sawmill work.
		In 1871, Crocker sold out his Central Pacific interest to his partners, but in the Panic of 1873 he returned as director and vice president.
	www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=243 (308 words)

	Houston Texas Estate Planning Wills Trusts Probate Family Partnerships Tax Lawyer
		At the Law Offices of Charles A. Crocker, we are dedicated to working with you to help you protect, preserve, and pass on all that you have worked so hard for.
		You should consult an attorney for individual advice regarding your own situation.
		You may reproduce materials available at this site for your own personal use and for non-commercial distribution.
	www.charlesacrocker.com (346 words)

	The Maritime Heritage Project: California Pioneers, Ships, Captains, Passengers.
		Crocker left New York in the steamship Star of the West for San Juan where they boarded the Pacific for San Francisco.
		Crocker hired thousands of Chinese laborers to help him build his Central Pacific Railroad's part of the Transcontinental Railroad.
		Charles Christian Nahl (1818-1878) was born in Germany into an artistic family.
	www.maritimeheritage.org /vips.htm (0 words)

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