Our Founder

James Edwin Crockett (1922-2009)

James E. Crockett was born in Hagerstown, Maryland. Entering into the US Army in 1942, 1st Lieutenant Crockett earned a degree in engineering at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He later served in France as a combat engineer.

​After the war, he graduated from the University of Maryland in 1949 with a B.A. in civil engineering. In 1961, he established Crockett Associates, P.A. a civil engineering firm in Baltimore, Maryland.

James Edwin Crockett

Mr. Crockett was the proud father of a loving family. He retired in 1969 and spent his time authoring a book entitled A Crockett Family Chronicle, a 300 year history of a Scotch-Irish family. He was an active member of the St. Andrews Society of Baltimore, the Robert Burns Society of Annapolis and the Sons of the American Revolution.
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Before his passing in 2009, Mr. Crockett established the James E. Crockett Educational and Charitable Trust, A non-profit organization dedicated to fostering perpetual good will between the United States and Scotland.