Charles Crocker Residence San Francisco 1880s
by Peter Ogden
Title
Charles Crocker Residence San Francisco 1880s
Artist
Peter Ogden
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Photograph - Photograph
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This is a restored photograph of the Charles Crocker residence on Nob Hill in San Francisco, California. Photograph is by the famous San Francisco Taber Photo studio circa 1885. This mansion was destroyed in the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.
Charles Crocker (September 16, 1822 – August 14, 1888) was an American railroad executive who was one of the founders of the Central Pacific Railroad, which constructed the westernmost portion of the first transcontinental railroad, and took control with partners of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
Crocker was born in Troy, New York on September 16, 1822. He was the son of Eliza (née Wright) and Isaac Crocker, a modest family. They joined the nineteenth-century migration west and moved to Indiana when he was 14, where they had a farm. Crocker soon became independent, working on several farms, a sawmill, and at an iron forge.
At the age of 23, in 1845, he founded a small, independent iron forge of his own. He used money saved from his earnings to invest later in the new railroad business after moving to California, which had become a boom state since the Gold Rush. His older brother Edwin B. Crocker had become an attorney by the time Crocker was investing in railroads.
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December 19th, 2019
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