Susan E. Crocker (b. Wood) (1836-1922) was born in Halifax, Massachusetts, and died in Los Angeles, California. She graduated from Peirce Academy in Middleboro, Massachusetts, and in 1857 married Charles F. Crocker, a printer and newspaper publisher. They settled in Lawrence, Massachusetts. In 1874 she graduated from Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary and subsequently became one of the founders and the first physician of Lawrence General Hospital. Sometime after Crocker's husband died in 1881, she moved to Boston, Massachusetts, and became a professor at the College of Physicians and Surgeons there. Crocker was a fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society as well as a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Essex North Medical Society, American Medical Association, New England Women's Club, and Daughters of the American Revolution. Crocker took Mary Baker Eddy's Primary class in February 1884 and was a member of both the Christian Scientist Association and the Christian Science Dispensary Association. Her brother and sister-in-law, Philander Wood and Mary E. Wood (b. Pike), also lived in Lawrence in the 1880s. Mary was also Eddy's student and a member of the Christian Scientist Association. By 1915 Crocker had moved to Los Angeles to reside in the household of her brother Newell E. Wood.

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