Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1907 — Croker’s Autobiography. [ARTICLE]

Croker’s Autobiography.

Richard Croker writes to the Journal of Irish Society correcting erroneous impressions which he finds current regarding himself. He denies that he was ever a professional pugilist or owned a gin palace, or that he was ever connected in any way with the liquor traffic. Nor was his father a blacksmith. He was Eyre Coote Croker of County Cork, who emigrated to America when a young man and through his knowledge of horses attained a position in the veterinary department of the United States army, which he held for many years.—New York Sun.