History of Cohasset, (Norfolk County) Massachusetts United States of America

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Biographical Sketch of Uriel Crocker

Uriel Crocker, publisher, was born in Marblehead, Mass., Sept. 13, 1796. He was apprenticed by his father to Samuel T. Armstrong of Boston to learn the printer's trade. He had a follow apprentice, Osmyn Brewster, and when the boys became of age Mr. Armstrong took them into partnership which continued until 1825, when the young men bought out the interest of Mr. Armstrong and continued the business as Crocker & Brewster until 1875, when they retired. As publishers they made a specialty of religious and educational works. They occupied the old bookstore at 173-175 Washington street, then 50 Cornhill, for over fifty years, and on Nov. 29, 1886, Mr. Crcoker celebrated the seventy-fifth anniversary of his partnership with Mr. Brewster, who was then also a nonagenarian. He was one of the most earnest` promoters of the Bunker Hill monument; an original organizer of the Old Colony railroad and a director for forty years; a director of the Concord railroad; a director, vice-president and president of the Atlantic and Pacific and of the St. Louis and San Francisco railroads; and a director and president of the United States Hotel company and of the Revere House association. He died at Cohasset, Mass., June 19, 1887.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor