From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, page 258.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


JOHN CROCKARD

John Crockard, wharf-master of Wheeling and steamboat agent, was born 
at Edinburgh, Scotland, July 15, 1847.  He is the son of Hugh 
Crockard, Sr., a native of Ireland, and his wife, Mary A. Hunter, 
who, after their marriage, removed to Edinburgh.  The parents and 
their children came to the United States in 1848, and made their home 
at Wheeling, where they have ever since resided.  John Crockard, 
coming to Wheeling in infancy, was reared and educated in the city, 
and at an early age was ready to assume a business position.  An 
opening presenting itself, he became receiving and discharging clerk 
on the wharf-boat, and from that time to this he has been connected 
with that work.  Since the death of Capt. C. H. Booth, Mr. Crockard 
has been the representative agent of all the different lines of 
steamboat plying the upper Ohio river, and also has charge of the 
Frank Booth wharf-boat, where he has the office of wharf-master of 
the city.  To the latter position he was appointed in 1884 to fill 
the unexpired term of Joseph Forsyth, deceased, and he was elected to 
the office in 1886 by popular vote, and re-elected in 1889, for a 
further term of two years.  Mr. Crockard is a member of the Knights 
of Honor; socially he is highly regarded.  In 1881 he was married to 
Mary Gardner, of Wheeling, and they have two daughters. 


(Linda Fluharty)