Aimée Crocker
| Aimée Crocker | |
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Aimée Crocker circa 1890
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| Born |
Amy Isabella Crocker December 5, 1864 Sacramento, California, U.S. |
| Died | February 7, 1941 (aged 78) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Other names | Princess Aimée Isabella Crocker Ashe Gillig Gouraud Miskinoff Galitzine |
| Spouse(s) |
Richard Porter Ashe (m. 1882–87) Henry Mansfield Gillig (m. 1889–1900) Jackson Gouraud (m. 1901–10) Alexander Miskinoff (m. 1914–16) Prince Mstislav Galitzine, Count Ostermann (m. 1925–27) |
| Children | Gladys (b. 11-21-84) Reginald (b. 3-31-97) Yvonne (b. 5-1-99) Dolores (b. 7-20-06) Yolanda (b. 6-15) |
Aimée Crocker (December 5, 1864 – February 7, 1941) was an American heiress, princess, Bohemian, world traveler, mystic and author. She was known for her cultural exploration of the Far East, for her extravagant parties in San Francisco, New York and Paris, and for her collections of lovers, adopted children, Buddhas, pearls, tattoos and snakes.
Aimée Crocker was born Amy Isabella Crocker December 5, 1864 in Sacramento, California to Judge Edwin B. Crocker and his second wife Margaret.
Aimée's father was the chief legal counsel for the Central Pacific Railroad and was one of its principal investors along with Mark Hopkins, Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford and brother Charles Crocker, also known as The Big Four. Together they built the western portion of the world’s First Transcontinental Railroad. Edwin served briefly as a California Chief Justice. Aimée's mother is also known for founding Sacramento’s Crocker Art Museum, the longest continuously operating art museum in the West with, for a time, the largest private collection in the country.
Aimée was the first cousin of William Henry Crocker, humanitarian and president of three great West Coast institutions: the Crocker Bank (once the 14th largest bank in the nation), the University of California, and the California Academy of Sciences. 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. Wife Ethel Crocker was the leading, if not the only, California patron of French Impressionist art at the time, owning paintings by Claude Monet, Eugène Boudin, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Edgar Degas.
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