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EVENING POST ANNUAL, 1882
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
of the State Officers, Representatives in Congress, Governor’s Staff, and Senators and
Members of the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut.
Published Annually.
Hartford, Conn.: Evening Post Association. 1882.
Pg. 126
URIAH W. CARRIER, Representative for Colchester, New London County:
First representative of Colchester, is a self-made man who has come to the front through
the exercise of persistent and well-directed energy. He is a native of that town, and has
but just reached his fifty-seventh birthday. His boyhood was passed upon a farm, but at
the age of twenty years he set forth to begin anew, and, finding his way to Rockville,
obtained employment with Hunt, McLean & Co., with whom he remained three years. He
then became junior partner of the new firm of Hunt, Stickney & Carrier, which
subsequently did an extensive business in general merchandise. In the spring of 1858 Mr.
Carrier opened a large dry-goods store in Hartford, but at the end of two years sold it
and returned to Rockville. There he resumed business, and during the next fourteen years
enjoyed a lucrative trade. In 1874 he disposed of his store in Rockville and removed to
Colchester, where he has since lived and has conducted the business of a country merchant
with marked success. He!
had only ordinary educational advantages in his youth, and but few helps over the hard
places that poor and struggling young men encounter. Mr. Carrier is a life-long Democrat.
He has held various local offices.