She was the first cousin of William Henry Crocker , humanitarian and president of three West Coast institutions : the Crocker Bank ( once the fourteenth largest bank in the nation ) , the University of California Board of Regents , and the California Academy of Sciences . When much of the city of San Francisco was destroyed by the fire from the 1906 earthquake , William Crocker and his bank were major forces in financing reconstruction . William 's wife Ethel was one of the leading California patrons of French Impressionist art
1906 earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
Aimée Crocker