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Edwin Bryant Crocker (26 April 1818 – 24 June 1875) was a California Supreme Court Justice and founder of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California . Biography. Crocker was born in Jamesville, New York to Isaac and Elizabeth Crocker. He earned a degree in civil engineering at Rensselaer Institute in Troy, New York.
In 1863 the burgeoning railroad company, in which younger brother Charles Crocker had invested, recruited Edwin Bryant Crocker as its attorney.
The Fifth Associate. Edwin Crocker’s exclusion from the photo can hardly be considered unjust. Nonetheless, his impact on the project makes his absence from the picture — and by extension history — even more noteworthy.
Jun 19, 2020 · Edwin Crocker argued that the United States Supreme Court, in the case of Prigg vs. Pennsylvania, had decided that all State law, relative to fugitives from labor, are unconstitutional and void, and it followed that the writ issued by the Clerk was null and void—and could authorize no person to hold them in custody.
Apr 10, 2014 · Edwin B. Crocker, Railroad Lawyer. Born in upstate New York, E.B. Crocker set out for California in 1852, not to dig for gold or to sell to the miners, but to hang his lawyer’s shingle in Sacramento. His brother, Charles, soon followed, not to practice law but to sell to the miners. The two brothers made up two of the five ...
In 1863 the burgeoning railroad company, in which younger brother Charles Crocker had invested, recruited Edwin Bryant Crocker as its attorney.
In 1863 the burgeoning railroad company in which Charles Crocker had invested recruited Edwin Bryant Crocker as its attorney. Learn more with this biography from American Experience: "Transcontinental Railroad."
