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SOURCE: History of Genesee County, Michigan
        pub. Everts and Abbott - 1879

        Page facing 168


                             GEORGE CROCKER

  George Crocker, son of Samuel Crocker, was born in Devonshire, England,
April 19, 1808.  The Crocker family were numerous and influential
agricultural people in that part of England.  George was the oldest of
thirteen children.  He came to America in March, 1832, stopping at
Stafford, Genesee Co., N. Y., where he was married to Miss Susan Parkie,
Aug. 8, 1835.

  In the spring of 1837 he came to Genesee County and purchased from the
government four hundred acres of land in the township of Flint, and the
following spring he went on to his land and began improving it.  As it was
covered with a heavy growth of timber, the progress was slow; the first
five years a log house, frame barn, and twenty-five or thirty acres
cleared, was the result.  At this time his younger brother, Stephen,
arrived from England and purchased of him one hundred and sixty acres of
land for cash.  With this capital, wielded by sagacity and good judgement,
the road to affluence was ensured.  His principal business outside of
farming was dealing in lands.  He was one of the parties to organize the
First National Bank of Flint; was one of its first directors, and vice-
president at the time of his death, which occurred Nov. 30, 1874.  He was a
man of strong common sense, deliberate in coming to conclusions, but when
his opinions were once formed, inflexible in his purpose.  Systematic in
business, and a man who made few mistakes, by his good judgement and
judicious management he accumulated a handsome property.  Politically he
was a Democrat, but never a seeker after office.

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