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lieutenant coiiunaiKler in January, 1HS8. and was on duty at tlu' Pacific station until WH. He was given leave of absence, 18yi-!t2; was on l)osird the JI'(i/-./.s7i, 1892-93; wjis made lightliouse insjHH'tor in May, 1893: was promoted com- maniler Nov. 11, 1894. and was made ordnance officer at the Norfolk navy yard. May 6, 189G. He died at Cliflsea. Mass.. Oct. 31, 1896.

CROCKER, George Glover, lawyer, was born in Hostoi). Mass., Dec. l">, 1843; son of Uriel and ^^a^all Kidder (Haskell) Crocker. He was gradu- ated from the Boston I>atin school in 1800, from Harvard in 1864. and from the Harvard law scliool in 1866. He was admitted to the bar in 18«i7 and engaged in practice in Boston. Mass., with liis brother. Uriel H. Crocker. In 1873-74 he served in the state legislaturo and was secretary of the Republican state committee, 1877-79. He was a member of the state senate, 1880-83, and was its president in 1883. In February, 1887, he was apiK)inted a meml>er of the state board of railroiid commissioners and was its chairman until January, 1892, when he resigned. In July, 1894, he was appointed by the governor a member of the Boston transit commission and was elected chairman of the commission. Among the priu- cii)al works of this commission was the building of the Boston subway, which \yas finished in four years from the appointment of the commis- sion. He served as an officer of business cor- porations and as a member of charitable organizations and social clubs. On Jime 19, 1875, he was married to Annie Bliss, daughter of Dr. Nathan Cooley Keep of Boston. He assisted his brother, U. H. Crocker, in editing XrAes on the fif-iural Statutes of Jla.'^xachusetts (1869). He pre- jiared annually a Digest of the rulings of the presiding officers of the Massachusetts senate and hou.se for the legislative manual. He is the author of Principles of Procedure in Deliberative limUfis (1889, 2d edition 1894), and contributions to [>eriodicals.

CROCKER, Marcellus M., soldier, was born in Franklin, Ind., Feb. 6, 1830. He entered the U.S. military academy in 1847, but left in 1849 to take up a course of law. He was admitted to the bar and practised in Des Moines, Iowa, until May, 1861, when he joined the volunteer army as major of the 2d Iowa infantry. He was pro- moted colonel in December, 1861, distinguished liimself at the V»attle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6-7, 1^'62, and was i»romoted brigadier-general, Nov. 29, 1862. He was at the siege of Vicksburg and conducted a raitl into Missi.ssippi. In 1864. upon the re-enli.stment of his brigade, he joined Sherman's army and was present at the siege of Atlanta and on the march to the sea, being for a time in command of a division. He was ordered to New Mexico at his personal solicitation,

lioping to benefit his health. He died in Wash- ington. I'.C.. Au;;. 20, INC.-,.

CROCKER, Samuel Leonard, representative, was born in Taunton. Mass., March 31, 1804; son of William Augustus and Sally (Ingalls) Rich- mond Crocker; grandson of Josiah, and great- grand.son of the Rev. Josiah Crocker, the sixth minister of Taunton. He was graduated at Brown university in 1882, and engaged in business in his native town as a copper manufacturer. He was president of the Taunton locomotive works; director of the Old Colony iron works; of the Old Colony railroad; of the Taunton brick com- pany; of the Bristol County savings bank; of th& Machinists" national bank and of the Taunton lunatic asylum. He was a member of the council of Governor Briggs in 1849; a representative in the 33d congress, 1853-55, and defeated in the election for the 34th congress. He was a trustee of the General theological seminary. New York city, and was elected a trustee of Brown uni- versity in 1882, but did not enter office. He was married June 15, 1825, to Hannah Weld Thomas, who died in 1827. Their daughter, Mary Caro- line, was the wife of Maj.-Gen. Darius N. Couch. On April 13, 1830, he was married to Caroline Thomas, a sister of his deceased wife, and their daughter, Sally, was the wife of Edmund H. Bennett, judge of probate and insolvency of Bristol county, and dean of the Boston university law school, and their son. Samuel Leonard, Jr., lawyer, was graduated at Brown university in 1856, and at the Harvard law school in 1859. afterward residing in Naples, Itah*. Mr. Crocker died in Boston, Mass., Feb. 10, 1883.

CROCKER, Susan Elizabeth Wood, physi- cian, was born in Halifax, Mass., Jan. 6, 1836; daughter of Nathan Thompson and Anne Maria (Kimball) Wood; granddaughter of William and Elizabeth (Thompson) Wood; and a descendant of Dr. Samuel Fuller who emigrated from England in the Mayflon-er in 1620 and was the first physician and surgeon in the United States; also of Elder William Brewster of the ^layrtuicer. She attended the public schools and Pierce acad- emy, Midilleboro, Mass. She was married, Nov. 27, 1856, to Charles F. Crocker of Lawrence, who died July 10, 1881. She was graduated from the AVoman"s medical college of the New York infirmary in 1874. She was interne of the New York infirmary from April to October, 1874, and then began the practice of medicine in Lawrence, Mass. In 1888 she removed to Boston, Mass., and engaged in general practice. She was phy- sician and surgeon to the Lawrence general hos- pital, 1876-88; and professor of the principles and practice of medicine in the College of phy- sicians and surgeons, Boston, Mass. She was elected a member of the American association