Crocker Pen Company

258 Washington            Boston Mass                1918
250 Devonshire St        Boston      Mass           1924
160 2nd St                     Cambridge Mass        1931-1932

Seth Sears Crocker was born in 1849 and was the son of a seaman/blacksmith. He worked various jobs such as being a railroad clerk and a grammar teacher before he settled on making fountain pens. Crocker started the Crocker Pen Co in the late 1890s. He sold high quality eyedropper fill and blo-filler pens. By 1900 he was employing 2 of his sons as traveling salesmen. His one son Seth Chilton Crocker would go to New York and start the SC Crocker pen company by 1906. SS Crocker was a inventor and designed pens and filling systems. Later he would market a hatchet filler pen which was just his version of a lever filler. There is a lot of confusion about Crocker , mainly because of SC Crocker naming his company Crocker also. It appears the SC Crocker failed in his bid to start a pen company after a few years and returned to Mass possibly bankrupt. He later took over the original Crocker Co in the 1920s. I believe there were at least 2 Crocker Pen companies operating at the same time.