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William Henry Crocker I (January 13, 1861 – September 25, 1937) was a member of the wealthy Crocker family and a prominent member of the Republican Party. Over the course of his business career, he became the president of Crocker National Bank .
The Crocker family was a wealthy American family based in California. Its fortune was primarily earned through the entrepreneurship of Charles Crocker , a tycoon who co-founded the Central Pacific Railroad [ 1 ] and acquired a controlling interest in the Southern Pacific Railroad system.
Encouraged by Lou Henry Hoover, wife of the later President Herbert Hoover, Crocker became treasurer of the Woman's "Belgian Relief Fund" in San Francisco and State Chair for the Woman's Section of the Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB). [9] [10] On another level, Crocker was the leading patron of French Impressionist art in California at ...
Charles Crocker, who was one of The Big Four of the Central Pacific Railroad and who constructed America's first transcontinental railroad, acquired a controlling interest in Woolworth for his son William Henry Crocker. The bank was renamed Crocker Woolworth National Bank, later Crocker National Bank.
William Henry Crocker (1861–1937), American banker and member of the Republican Party William L. Crocker Jr. , American politician and journalist William Maunder Crocker (1843–1899), administrator in Borneo
Harriet Valentine Crocker (1859–1935), who married Charles Beatty Alexander (1849–1927). [23] [24] William Henry Crocker (1861–1937), who married Ethel Sperry (1861–1934). [25] Crocker was seriously injured in a New York City carriage accident in 1886, [26] never fully recovered, and died two years later on August 14, 1888.
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William Henry Crocker, of Crocker National Bank, served as treasurer, in addition to being the major stockholder. [1] When the mining boom began in the Coeur d'Alene, Idaho mining district, the area was lightly inhabited. The Bunker Hill and the Sullivan companies built a boarding house for miners in 1887. [2]