Sacramento County Biographies

JUDGE E. B. CROCKER

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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	was born at Oswego, New York, April 26, 1818. He graduated 
from the Troy Polytechnic Institute, and then studied law in the office of J. L. 
Jernegan, South Bend, Indiana. He was admitted to practice in the Circuit Court 
of that State in 1842, and became a partner of Mr. Jernegan, and in 1847 
succeeded to the entire practice. In 1852 he came to California, and located 
permanently in Sacramento. Upon the resignation of Stephen J. Field as Chief 
Justice of the Supreme Court of California, Judge Crocker was appointed to the 
vacancy by Governor Stanford. Upon retiring from the bench he became attorney 
for the Central Pacific Railroad, of which road he was one of the first 
projectors and stockholders, and afterwards was the general agent and a 
Director. In June, 1869, at the close of some very difficult business, he was 
stricken with paralysis, from which he never recovered. He died at his residence 
in this city, in June, 1875. Adjoining his elegant residence he erected an art 
gallery, in which he placed a collection of paintings unsurpassed by any private 
collection in the United States. In early political life he was a Whig. He early 
joined the anti-slavery faction, and was one of the organizers of the Republican 
party on this coast. A fine view of the Crocker mansion, art gallery and 
residence appears in this work. 

Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.