Charles Crocker

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American railroad executive who founded the Central Pacific Railroad (1822-1888)

United States FoundersLived 1822 to 1888 · aged 65

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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 Railroad and purchased control of the Southern Pacific Railroad.

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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.[3]

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.[4]

Nob Hill Spite fence

Painting of Crocker's daughter, Harriet, by Giovanni Boldini, 1887

Crocker's tomb in Mountain View Cemetery

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FatherIsaac Crocker

MotherEliza Wright Crocker

ChildCharles Frederick Crocker

ChildWilliam Henry Crocker

ChildHarriet Valentine Crocker

SiblingEdwin B. Crocker

SiblingClark Wright Crocker

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