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Arthur Richard Crocker was born in 1885 in London, [[England]], and in 1908, was standing on a street corner in Woodstock, [[Ontario]], Canada at the age of 23, and was converted to Christ thru the preaching of a Mr. Lester and a Mr. Brown who later served in Argentina. Crocker was received into fellowship at Brandon, [[Manitoba]] and commended to full-time laboring in the Lord's work among the open brethren (OB) from an assembly at Galt, Ontario. He labored for many years on Manitoulin Island, then in [[Florida]], then his remaining years in Los Angeles, [[California]] where he died in 1955. He married Dinah Higson Crocker (b. 1881 Bolton, England - d. 1969 Tustin, CA).
=Visiting Ministry=
==Canada==
===Forest, ON===
* Witness 1937-2: "Forest Conference well attended. Edifying ministry from Messrs. M'Crory, Ferguson, Sheldrake, Gould, Sen, Shivas, M'Keown, Monypenny, Crocker and Macleod."
===Sault Ste. Marie, ON===
Crocker was among those who performed open air meetings in this area in the 1920's & 1930's, alongside John Sylvester, Albert Joyce, William Warke, James Key, T. Dobbin, and John Govan which benefited the Albert Street Gospel Hall, presently (since 1947) known as Spring Street Gospel Hall at Spring & Wellington. See Robert L. Peterson's [[Canada_Ontario]] chapter.
===Montreal, QC===
* AA 1936-10: "[[John Monypenny]] had a week's meetings with us. Br. McCrory, Crocker, and Fletcher also called on us. Br. John Ferguson had some meetings. Ministry practical and profitable."
=Assembly Annals obit=
=Sources=
* Assembly Annals: 1936-10; 1955-8
* Light & Liberty: 1937
* The Believers Magazine: 1936-1
* Witness: 1937-2