Uriel Crocker, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetUriel Crocker
American businessman
Date of Birth: 12-Sep-1796
Place of Birth: Marblehead, Massachusetts, United States
Date of Death: 19-Jul-1887
Profession: publisher
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Uriel Crocker
- Uriel Crocker (September 12, 1796 – July 19, 1887) was a public-spirited Boston citizen, head of the Crocker & Brewster publishing house during its 58-year existence (1818-1876), and actively involved in other enterprises including railroads. Crocker was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, as one of eight children of the elder Uriel Crocker and his second wife, Mary James.
- He graduated from the academy at Marblehead in August, 1811, as first scholar.
- In the next month, on the day after he turned fifteen years old, Crocker began work in Boston as an apprentice in the printing-office of Samuel Turell Armstrong (afterwards mayor of Boston and acting governor of the Commonwealth), who also carried on a bookselling business. At age 19 Crocker was made foreman of the printing-office, and at 22 was, with his fellow-apprentice Osmyn Brewster taken into partnership with Armstrong.
- The agreement was that the bookstore was to be conducted in the name of Mr.
- Armstrong, and the printing-office in that of Crocker & Brewster.
- After 1825 the entire business was carried on under the name of Crocker & Brewster (although Mr. Armstrong continued a member of the firm until 1840).
- The printing-office was then in Mr.
- Crocker's especial charge, and the bookstore in that of Mr.
- Brewster.
- (For a subsequent history of the firm, see Crocker & Brewster.) In 1829 Crocker married Sarah Kidder Haskell.
- Their children were Uriel Haskell Crocker, Sarah Haskell Crocker, and George Glover Crocker.
- Mrs.
- Crocker died January 16, 1856, at the age of fifty years. In 1866, Dartmouth College conferred upon him an honorary degree of A.
- M.
- He died at Cohasset in his ninety-first year.
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