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Henry J. Crocker (1861〔(Personnel of San Francisco's Grand Jury ) ''The San Francisco Call'', 26 April 1895, p. 8. Retrieved 10 June 2011.〕 – 11 October 1912〔"Death of Mr. H. J. Crocker." in ''The London Philatelist'', Vol. XXI, No. 251, November 1912, p. 301.〕) was a prominent San Franciscan businessman, one of the Committee of Fifty formed after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and a noted philatelist. ==Business career== Crocker was born in Sacramento in 1861 and moved to San Francisco in 1874.〔 He was the son of Clarke Crocker and a nephew of Charles B. Crocker, a railway magnate.〔(Guide to the Mary Virginia Ives Crocker Papers, 1876-1910. ) Online Archive of California, 2001. Retrieved 10 June 2011.〕 In 1879 he started work with ''Sisson, Wallace & Co.'', beginning a successful business career that lead to directorships of numerous firms and the acquisition of great wealth. He was President of the ''Central Gaslight Company'' and a Director of the ''San Francisco Stockyards''. He and his wife, Mary Ives Crocker, owned large estates in California including a winery.〔〔 In 1898, Crocker was one of the founders of ''The West Side Flume & Lumber Company''.〔(The West Side Lumber Company. ) pacificng.com, 2009. Retrieved 10 June 2011.〕 Crocker was President of the ''American National Bank'' and the ''Refining and Producing Oil Company of San Francisco''. In 1903 he stood for the office of Mayor of San Francisco, but was unsuccessful.〔 Following the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, Crocker was one of the ''Committee of Fifty'' prominent citizens formed by the Mayor to deal with the crisis. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry J. Crocker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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