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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 known for her cultural exploration of the Far East, for her extravagant parties in San Francisco, New York and Paris, and her collections of husbands and lovers, adopted children, Buddhas, pearls, tattoos, and snakes.
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.
Their daughter, Amy Isabel “Aimée” Crocker, is also buried at the cemetery. She was an heiress, traveler and author. “She was born in 1864 and was anything but a typical Victorian lady ...
Aimée Crocker, an American world traveler, adventuress, heiress, and mystic, was dubbed the "queen of Bohemia" in the 1910s by the world press for living an uninhibited, sexually liberated, and aggressively non-conformist life in San Francisco, New York, and Paris.
Aimée Crocker: American: 1864: 1941: Heiress, writer spent a decade exploring the Far East in the 1890s; toured the interior of Java and Borneo Sophia Danenberg: American: 1972: First black woman to reach summit of Mount Everest Anne-France Dautheville: French: c.1943: First woman to motorcycle solo around the world Alexandra David-Néel ...
For the descendants and close relatives of American railroad magnate Charles Crocker (1822-1888). Pages in category "Crocker family" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
Born on May 2, 1860, in Sacramento, California, [1] Fassett was the daughter of the California Supreme Court Justice Edwin B. Crocker and Margaret Rhodes Crocker. [2] [3] Her younger sister was the notorious Bohemian Aimée Crocker.
Charles Crocker 1822–88: Clarke Crocker [a] 1827–90: Henry S. Crocker [b] [c] 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 [d] [e] 1861–1912: Kate Eugenie Crocker 1854–74: James O.B ...