Henry J. Crocker

Henry J. Crocker (1861 – 11 October 1912) was a prominent San Franciscan businessman, one of the Committee of Fifty formed after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake; he was also a noted philatelist. Personal life Crocker was born in Sacramento in 1861 and moved to San Francisco in 1874. He was the son of Clark W. Crocker and a nephew of Charles Crocker, a railway magnate. Crocker had one brother and three sisters, one of whom (Lizzie Eldridge) married the prominent judge William Cary Van Fleet in 1887. Crocker and his wife, Mary Virginia (née Ives, 1863–1929) were married in 1889 and had six children: four daughters (Florence, Marion, Kate, and Mary) and two sons (Harry and Clark). Florence Crocker did not survive to adulthood. Kate Crocker was a victim of the 1918 flu pandemic. He fell ill during the summer of 1910, which he was spending at his farm in Cloverdale, but was not moved to a hospital in San Francisco in October, where he died on October 11.