Nevada Genealogy Trails Mineral County Alvin W. Crocker Biography

ALVAN W. CROCKER. Before the territory of Nevada was organized Alvan Winslow Crocker located within its borders, and is one of its honored pioneers and representative citizens as well as a lawyer of prominence. He is now practicing in Hawthorne, and his clientage is large and of a distinctively representative character. While engaging in the general practice, he makes a specialty of mining law, and in this connection has handled many important cases.

Mr. Crocker was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts, May 27, 1830. and is descended from an ancestry that was establishes in New England at a very early period in the colonization of the new world. He acquired his literary education in his native state and prepared for the bar in California and Nevada, being admitted to practice in the latter state in 1874. It was in the year 1850 that he sailed from Boston, making a safe voyage around the Horn to California, where for ten years he engaged in placer mining in Placerville and other camps. He was also engaged in merchandising and had a store at Monoville and one at Aurora, conducting the last one until 1869. when he removed to Bridgeport, California. While there he was elected clerk and recorder of the county and served for five years. He was then chosen by popular suffrage to the position of district attorney, in which he served for two years, and his residence in Aurora continued until 1875. Having been admitted to the bar he opened a law office there, and soon gained a good clientage, which connected him with very important litigation. In 1883 he removed to Hawthorne, Nevada, where he has since conducted a general law practice, although making a specialty of mining law. In that department of jurisprudence he is particularly well informed, and has made a good record as an honorable and painstaking and conscientious attorney.

Mr. Crocker is a member of the Masonic fraternity, having been raised in the lodge at Aurora in 1876. He has since taken an active and helpful part in the work of the craft, and is a past master of his lodge. During his long residence in Nevada he has made many friends and is widely and favorably known throughout the state. He has never married, but has a pleasant residence in Hawthorne and boards at the hotels. His business career has been attended with satisfactory success, and he is recognized as one of the capable lawyers practicing at the Nevada bar.

Source:
A History of the State of Nevada: Its Resources and People
By Thomas Wren, Lewis Publishing Company
Published by The Lewis publishing company, 1904