Legacy
His uncle's home in Sacramento, California, was converted into the Crocker Art Museum and was the first art museum to open in the West.
His nephew, Harry Crocker, was a movie star in the 1920s and, at one time, the personal assistant of Charlie Chaplin.
His cousin, Aimee Crocker, was a Bohemian mystic who garnished publicity for her extravagant parties in New York, San Francisco and Paris, for her 5 husbands and many lovers, for her tattoos, and for living 10 years in the Far East, not as a tourist, but as a native.
The public middle school in Hillsborough, California is named after him, Crocker Middle School.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)