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Uriel Crocker was born on September 12, 1796 in Marblehead, Massachusetts, United States. He was a son of Uriel and Mary (James) Crocker.
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Uriel Crocker was born on September 12, 1796 in Marblehead, Massachusetts, United States. He was a son of Uriel and Mary (James) Crocker.
In 1811 he graduated from the Academy at Marblehead.
A true son of the old Massachusetts port he felt the urge to go to sea, but “None of my descendants shall go to sea, ” was grandfather Capt. James’s stern command.
Grandfather Crocker took the lad to Harvard for the 1811 Commencement and introduced him to Samuel Parkman, in the hope that the latter would find a job for the grandson in Boston. A few weeks later Uriel was established as “printer’s devil” in the office of Samuel T. Armstrong, in Cornhill, Boston.
For the first four years of his apprenticeship he received his board ($2. 50 per week), thirty dollars a year for clothes, and twenty-five cents a thousand for all types he set up in a day in excess of 4, 000.
The lad’s account book shows he earned in this way $180. 02 in the four years, and at the end of that time he had attained such proficiency that Armstrong promoted him to be foreman of the establishment.
Such was the kindly manner of the nineteen-year-old foreman that he never had “an unpleasant or unkind word” from any of his fellow apprentices.
In 1818 Armstrong took Crocker and Osmyn Brewster into partnership with him, and seven years later the firm name became Crocker & Brewster. Religious books in great number bear the imprint of the firm; the “best seller” of them all was Scott’s Family Bible (1824) which was the first large work in America to be printed from stereotyped plates. The undertaking was distinctly Crocker’s. It required eighteen months of labor and cost $20, 000.
The work in six volumes retailed at twenty-four dollars. The firm published many school texts also, including Andrews’s First Lessons in Latin, and a complete set of Latin texts by the same author.
A branch office was established in New York in 1821, but the business there suffered under a dishonest manager and was sold to Daniel Appleton and Jonathan Leavitt, a transaction which represents the start of the publishing firm of D. Appleton & Company. The first iron- lever printing-press in Boston was introduced by Crocker & Brewster, as was also the first power press. During the panic of 1837 when all other booksellers failed, Crocker & Brewster continued in business.
From 1811 to 1864 the firm was situated at the same place, although the street number was changed from 30 Cornhill to 47 Washington St. Then a move was made to the adjoining building and the business continued till 1876 when the octogenarian partners sold out to Houghton & Company.
Crocker took great interest in railroad devel opment, being a director of the Old Colony Railroad Company for many years, president of the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company in 1874, and a director of several other roads at different times.
The variety of his interests is shown in his official connection with the Boston Dispensary, the Old South Society, the Bunker Hill Monument Association (he addressed the annual meeting of this organization, June 17, 1885, giving reminiscences of Lafayette’s visit to New York and Boston in 1824), the Franklin Savings Bank, the Boston House of Correction, the United States Hotel Company, the South Bay Improvement Company, the Massachusetts Charitable Society, the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association, and Mount Auburn Cemetery. In later years, Crocker became heavily involved with railway companies.
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Crocker’s wife, whom he married on February 11, 1829, was Sarah Kidder Haskell, daughter of Elias Haskell of Boston.