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 CROCKER. CROCKER 149 Vermont & Massachusetts, and the Troy & Greenfield railroads. He was a member of Congress when he died, in 1874. He was a man of marked individuality, and of the widest experience, and the son came natur- ally by his ability to cope with the man- agement of large interests. Immediately after graduating from col- lege, he associated himself with the firm of Crocker, Burbank & Company, one of the largest paper manufacturing concerns in the state. Mr. Crocker is also largely in- terested in the Orswell Yarn Mills, the Parkhill Manufacturing Company, the Put- nam Machine Company of Fitchburg, the Rollstone Machine Company, and the Union Machine Company, the Turner's Falls Land & Water Power Company, and is a director in the Keith Paper Company, the Montague Paper Company, the John Rus- sell Cutlery Company, and the Crocker National Bank at Turner's Falls. He is also a trustee in the Crocker Institution for Savings. He is largely interested in rail- roads, is a director in several corporations, and is one of the largest owners in the Fitchburg Railroad Company. At the incorporation of the city of Fitch- burg, in 1873, he was chosen an alderman, and again consented to serve in 1877. In 1879 he was elected a member of the House of Representatives, and in 1880 he became a member of the Senate, creditably filling positions upon several important com- mittees. On the 14th of October, 1857, at Charles- town, Mr. Crocker married Eliza, daughter of William and Eliza B. K. Tufts, of Charlestown. Their children were : Alvah, Emma Louise, William Tufts, Kendall Fox, Charles T., Jr., and Paul Crocker. Mr. Crocker was again married, June 1, 1881, to Helen Trowbridge, daughter of Sam- uel B. and Sarah Trowbridge Barton of Brooklyn, N. Y. The children of this marriage are : Edith Barton and Barton Crocker. CROCKER, George Glover, son of Uriel and Sarah Kidder (Haskell) Crocker, was born in Boston, December CS. 1843- He fitted for college at the Boston pub- lic Latin school, from which he graduated in i860 as a Franklin medal scholar. He then entered Harvard and graduated in 1864. After a course at the Harvard law school, having received the degrees of A. M. and LL. B., he was, in 1867, ad- mitted to the bar in the county of Suffolk, and began the practice of his profession in Boston, in company with his brother, Ural H. Crocker. The Messrs. Crocker pub- lished two editions of "Notes on the Ceneral Statutes," and simultaneously with the publication of the revision of the statutes in 1882, they issued a third and enlarged edition, entitled " Notes on the Public Statutes." In 1868 Mr. Crocker joined in a suc- cessful movement to revive the Boston Young Men's Christian Union, an institu- tion which had been in a comatose condi- tion for several years. He became a life member, and for nine years served as one of the board of directors. During most of that time he had special charge of the deliberative assembly of the Union. In 1 87 3 he was a member of the House of Representatives, was re-elected in 1874, and served both years as chair- man of the committee on bills in the third reading. In 1874 he was also House chairman of the joint committee on the liquor law, and a member of the com- mittee on rules and orders. In the summer of 1877 he was chosen secretary of the Republican state central committee, serving in that position for two ■ GEORGE G. CROCKER. years. In the fall of 1877 Mr. Crocker helped to promote the organization known as the " Young Republicans," and in April, 1879, he was elected its chairman.