Timothy Doane Crocker

Timothy and Eliza resided in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was a deacon of the church, a man of wealth and of high standing in the community.

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We offer you this beautiful steel engraving of Timothy Doane Crocker. He was the son of J. Davis Crocker, of Lee, Massachusetts, a lineal descendant of the Plymouth Rock pilgrims, and of Deborah Doane, a daughter of Judge Timothy Doane, formerly of Connecticut. His great-grandfather Crocker is an historical character, a captain in the King's navy before the Revolution, and at one time president of Long Island under British rule. His grandfather Crocker was a leading man of Lee, owning a large tract of land in that town. Being urged by his pastor, Dr. Hyde, and others, to head a colony of emigration to the Western Reserve, he consented. His mother's family came to Euclid Township (now East Cleveland) in the year 1801, his father's a few years later. There were then only three log houses where now stands the beautiful city of Cleveland. At this time the mother of our subject was but five years old, but in the month of April 1875, she was living, perfectly conversant with the growth and development of the country, especially of northern Ohio, from 1801. Young Crocker went from the district school to Twinsburg Academy. He subsequently attended Shaw Academy, and from there went to Western Reserve College, entered the scientific department, devoting at the same time much attention to the study of Greek and Latin. He graduated from this institution in June 1843, ranking high as a scholar. In the fall of this year he went south, and was principal of a select school near Bowling Green, Kentucky. He remained here two years and a half. On his return, in 1846, he read law in the office of Alien & Stetson for a few months. He then entered the law school of Harvard, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was graduated from that college in 1848. After a severe course of preparation, he was examined in open court, and admitted to practice at the Middlesex bar, in Massachusetts. He returned to Cleveland the same year, and in November again left home for Burlington, Iowa, spending the winter in the office of Grimes. & Starr, thoroughly posting himself in the laws and practice of the State. In March 1849, he opened a law office, where he was engaged in the active duties of his profession till 1863. He was also attorney for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad; from the time it broke ground on the east side of the Mississippi. He became interested in other railroads and plank roads of that section, and also in the Burlington, bank, of which he was a director. His investments in real estate in Iowa were highly successful. The health of his family demanding a change, he returned to Cleveland in 1863, where his private affairs and large estate engaged his whole business attention.

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