John S. Crocker

from The New York Times, September 15, 1890:

                 OBITUARY.
           GEN. JOHN S. CROCKER.

 Gen John S. Crocker, Warden of the District
of Columbia Jail, died at his residence in Wash-
inton yesterday. He was about seventy years
of age. He was in good health when he arose in
the morning, but at about 3 o'clock he was seized
with a hemorrhage and died before a doctor
arrived.
 He was a native of New-York State. At twen-
ty-one years of age he began the practice of the
law at Cambridge, Washington County, N.Y.
He served in the State Legislature, and was a
friend of Gov. Morgan. When the war broke
out he organized a regiment, which he named
the Morgan Rifles, its official designation being the
Ninety-third New-York. He entered the Union
service as Colonel. The regiment was assigned
to the Army of the Potomac, and was the head-
quarters guard of that army under McClellan,
Hooker Meade and Burnside. Gen. Crocker was
captured in 1862, but after confinement in
Libby, Salisbury, N.C., and Belle Isle prisons,
was by special arrangement of Secretary Stan-
ton exchanged for Col. Chancellor of the Con-
federate Army. He took part in every battle of
the army of the Potomac, and was wounded
three times at the Wilderness, and also at Spots-
ylvania Court House. fter the battle ofSpots-
ylvania he became Brigadier General, succeed-
ing Gen. Hayes.
 After the war he went to Washington, where
he had since lived. He was President of the old
Board of Aldermen when appointed Warden of
the District Jail in 1869. He had held the office
ever since, and was proud of the fact that he
had been longer in this position than any man
in this country holding a similar office. He was
Warden of the jail during the Guiteau excite-
ment, and had charge of all the arrangements
for the confinement and hanging. He was a 
Mason.