| Crocker, Edwin Bryant | ||||||||||||||||
| type | Collector | |||||||||||||||
| dates | 1818-1875 | |||||||||||||||
| city | Sacramento, | |||||||||||||||
| state | CA | |||||||||||||||
| other cities | Troy, NY; South Bend, IN; | |||||||||||||||
| sex | M | |||||||||||||||
| history |
Edwin Bryant Crocker was an art collector, founder of the Crocker Museum, lawyer, California State Supreme Court Justice (1863), and served as legal counsel for the Central Pacific Railroad Company (company organized by Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, Collis P. Huntington and Edwin's brother, Charles Crocker). Judge Edwin B. Crocker’s collection included local and European paintings, drawings and decorative arts. The collection included work by, among others, Xavier Martinez, Thomas Hill, Rembrandt and Dürer. Crocker was married twice, his first wife was Mary Norton Crocker Walker (born in 1848 she died in the late 1840s) he married his second wife, Margaret Eleanor Rhodes Crocker (1822-1901), on July 8, 1852 in New York. |
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| decades | 1860-1870 1870-1880 |
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| website | http://www.crockerartmuseum.org/ | |||||||||||||||
| updated | 10/31/2024 13:33:21 | |||||||||||||||
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