Charles Frederick Crocker
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Charles Frederick Crocker was vice president of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company and a member of the wealthy Crocker family.
Charles Frederick Crocker
Charles Crocker
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Charles Crocker was an American railroad executive and founding patriarch of the Crocker business dynasty. He was a member of the "Big Four" who famously oversaw construction of the Central Pacific Ra
Charles Frederick Crocker
…Railroad Company and a member of the wealthy Crocker family. He was born in Sacramento, California, on December 26, 1854, the eldest son of Mary Ann and Charles Crocker. He was educated in Sacramento public schools, graduated from Oakland Military Academy in 1872 and attended the Brooklyn Polytechnic School (1875), but…
Portrait by Stephen W. Shaw, 1872
Pacific Railroad Bond, City and County of San Francisco, 1865
The Truckee River at Verdi, Nevada. When the Central Pacific Railroad reached the site in 1868, Charles Crocker pulled a slip of paper from a hat and read the name of Giuseppe Verdi; so, the town was named after the Italian opera composer.
Charles Crocker's Second Empire-Italian Villa style mansion (1877), formerly at the N.W. corner of California & Taylor, on Nob Hill, San Francisco, now the site of Grace Cathedral.