(Born 1861- Died 1937) 1861 is a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

William H. Crocker founded and then later became the president of Crocker National Bank. Crocker National Bank was where Scott Adams worked at his first years in the business world. ...

He donated the Crocker family's Nob Hill block for Grace Cathedral. Nob Hill refers to a small district in San Francisco, California adjacent to the intersection of California and Powell streets (and the respective cable car lines). ... Grace Cathedral is located on Nob Hill in San Francisco, California. ...

Mr. Crocker also chaired the Panama-Pacific Exposition Committee and SE Community Chest, and was a key member of the committee that built the San Francisco Opera House and Veterans Building. Categories: Stub | Worlds Fairs | California history | San Francisco history ... San Francisco Opera (SFO) is the second largest opera company in North America. ...

When much of the city of San Francisco was destroyed by the fire from the 1906 earthquake, William Crocker and his bank were major forces in financing reconstruction. This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... San Francisco City Hall, April 20, 1906 The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a major earthquake at San Francisco, California on the early morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906. ...

Mr. Crocker was a University of California regent for nearly thirty years and funded the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory's second cyclotron. The University of California (UC) is a public university system within the State of California. ... The Berkeley Lab is perched on a hill overlooking the Berkeley central campus and San Francisco Bay. ...

His father, Charles Crocker (1822-1888), had been a builder of the Central Pacific Railroad. Categories: People stubs | Rail stubs | United States railroad executives | 1822 births | 1888 deaths ... 1822 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... External link Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum Categories: Corporation stubs | Historical stubs | Defunct railroad companies of the United States | California railroads | Nevada railroads | Utah railroads | Historic civil engineering landmarks ...

In the 1890's, his wife, in part, lent William Kingston Vickery, owner of the San Francisco art gallery, Vickery, Atkins & Torrey, a number of French Impressionist paintings. Mr. Vickery then supervised a series of these loan exhibitions in San Francisco and introduced Impressionism to California in the form of paintings by Monet, Eugene Boudin, Paul Cezanne, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Renoir, and Edgar Degas. These pictures were lent by California Impressionist, Lucy Bacon (who studied in France under Camille Pissaro and met Paul Cezanne), as well as Mrs. William H. Crocker, who was the leading California patron of French Impressionist art at the time. This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... VICKERY, ATKINS & TORREY was an important Art Gallery in San Francisco, California, that help introduce California to Impressionism. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Impressionism was a 19th century art movement, that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists who began publicly exhibiting their art in the 1860s. ... State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles [[List of Governors of California|Governor]] Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd)  - Land 404,298 km²  - Water 20,047 km² (4. ... Oscar-Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926), French impressionist painter. ... Rivage de Portrieux, Cotes-du-Nord by Eugène Boudin. ... Categories: 1839 births | 1906 deaths | French painters | Post-impressionism | Artist stubs ... The garden at Pontoise, painted 1877. ... Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841 - December 3, 1919) was a preeminent French painter. ... Edgar Degas (July 19, 1834 – September 27, 1917) was a French painter and sculptor. ... Lucy A. Bacon (1857-1932) was a Californian artist who studied in Paris under the famous Impressionist, Camille Pissarro (who was friends with Paul Cézanne), and was the only known California artist to have studied under any of the Great French Impressionists. ... The garden at Pontoise, painted 1877. ... Categories: 1839 births | 1906 deaths | French painters | Post-impressionism | Artist stubs ... See also Impressionist (entertainment): A girl with a watering can by Renoir, 1876 Impressionism was a 19th century art movement, which began as a private association of Paris-based artists who exhibited publicly in 1874. ...