Samuel Leonard Crocker
| Samuel Leonard Crocker | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 2nd district |
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In office March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855 |
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| Preceded by | Francis B. Fay |
| Succeeded by | James Buffington |
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| Born | March 31, 1804 Taunton, Massachusetts |
| Died | February 10, 1883 (aged 78) Boston, Massachusetts |
| Political party | Whig |
| Spouse(s) | Hannah Weld Thomas, m. June 15, 1825, d. November 22, 1827; Caroline Thomas, m. April 13, 1830, d. January 28, 1875 |
| Children | Mary Caroline; Sally; Ellen Louisa; Samuel Leonard Crocker, Jr., |
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Samuel Leonard Crocker (March 31, 1804 – February 10, 1883) was a prominent businessman and U.S. Representative from Taunton, Massachusetts. Crocker graduated from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, in 1822. Throughout his life, he engaged in various manufacturing and civic interests in his hometown of Taunton and throughout Massachusetts.
Samuel Leonard Crocker was born in Taunton in 1804 into a prominent family. His parents were William A. Crocker and Sally (Ingell) Crocker. He was the middle of three brothers, along with older brother William Allen and younger brother George Augustus, who would later do business together as Crocker Brothers & Company. Samuel Leonard's uncle was the Hon. Samuel Crocker, who founded the firm of Crocker, Bush and Richmond in 1805. Later known as Crocker and Richmond, the firm was involved in several manufacturing businesses of Taunton during the early 19th century.
Crocker married Hannah Weld Thomas (daughter of Isaiah Thomas) in 1825, but she died two years later in 1827. In 1830, Crocker married Hannah's sister Caroline Thomas. They had three daughters and one son, Mary Caroline (who married Darius N. Couch, Sally (who married Edmund H. Bennett), Ellen Louisa and Samuel L. Crocker, Jr.
In 1826, Crocker founded the Taunton Copper Manufacturing Co., along with his two brothers. Located along the Wading River in Norton, Massachusetts, the company was incorporated in 1831 with a working capital of $200,000. The business soon prospered and expanded. The company obtained a lucrative contract to furnish the U.S. Government with $50,000 in copper coins annually. In 1845, a second location was built at Weir Village, and much of the machinery from Norton relocated to the new site.
In 1843, along with his brother George, and the Robinson brothers of Bridgewater, Crocker founded the Old Colony Iron Works in East Taunton. Established at the site of Horatio Leonard & Company, which was originally built in 1823, the Old Colony Iron Works became the largest producer of nails in New England by the mid-1870s.
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