Morrill may refer to:
Locations in the United States
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Morrill, Kansas
Morrill is a city in Brown County, Kansas, Brown County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 218.
History
Morrill was laid out in 1878 when the St. Joseph and Western Railroa ...
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Morrill Township, Brown County, Kansas
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Morrill, Maine
Morrill is a town in Waldo County, Maine, United States. The population was 971 at the 2020 census.
History
Morrill is situated in the central part of Waldo County, 6½ miles west of Belfast. The surface of the town is uneven, but with ...
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Morrill Township, Morrison County, Minnesota
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Morrill, Nebraska
Morrill is a village located in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska, United States, in the western Panhandle of the state. Morrill is part of the Scottsbluff, Nebraska Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 921 at the 2010 census.
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Morrill County, Nebraska
Morrill County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 4,555. Its county seat is Bridgeport.
In the Nebraska license plate system, Morrill County is represented by the prefix 64 (it ...
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Morrill, Texas
Morrill is an unincorporated area that formerly held a distinct community in Cherokee County, Texas, United States. The site is along Farm to Market Road 1911 near Rusk
A rusk is a hard, dry Biscuit#Biscuits in British usage, biscuit or a t ...
People
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Annie Morrill Smith, botanist and genealogist
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Amos Morrill
Amos Morrill (August 25, 1809 – March 5, 1884) was a United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
Education and career
Born in Salisbury, Massachusetts, Morril ...
, a U.S. Federal Court Judge
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Anson P. Morrill, Governor of Maine and U.S. Congressman
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Charles Henry Morrill
Charles Henry Morrill (July 14, 1843 – December 14, 1928) was an American businessman who played a role in the history of Nebraska. Morrill County, Nebraska, is named after him.
He was born in Concord, New Hampshire, the only child of Ephraim ...
, businessman prominent in the history of Nebraska
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David L. Morril (note spelling), Governor of New Hampshire and U.S. Senator
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Edmund Needham Morrill
Edmund Needham Morrill (February 12, 1834 – March 14, 1909) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Kansas and the 13th governor of Kansas.
Biography
Edmund Needham Morrill was born in Westbrook, Maine, to Rufu ...
, Governor of Kansas and U.S. Congressman
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James Morrill
James Lewis Morrill (September 24, 1891 – July 1979) was a professor and academic administrator who served as the president of the University of Wyoming and the University of Minnesota. He attended Ohio State University for his undergradua ...
, former president of the Univ. of Minnesota
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John Morrill (baseball), baseball player for the Boston Beaneaters
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John Morrill (historian)
John Stephen Morrill (born 12 June 1946) is a British Roman Catholic Priest, historian and academic who specialises in the political, religious, social, and cultural history of early-modern Britain from 1500 to 1750, especially the English Civi ...
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John Morrill (Wisconsin pioneer)
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Justin Smith Morrill
Justin Smith Morrill (April 14, 1810December 28, 1898) was an American politician and entrepreneur who represented Vermont in the United States House of Representatives (1855–1867) and United States Senate (1867–1898). He is most widely reme ...
, U.S. Senator from Vermont, whose namesake legislation includes:
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Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act
The Morrill Land-Grant Acts are United States statutes that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges in U.S. states using the proceeds from sales of federally owned land, often obtained from Native American tribes through treaty, cessi ...
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Morrill Tariff
The Morrill Tariff was an increased import tariff in the United States that was adopted on March 2, 1861, during the last two days of the Presidency of James Buchanan, a Democrat. It was the twelfth of the seventeen planks in the platform of the ...
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Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act
The Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act ( 37th United States Congress, Sess. 2., ch. 126, ) was a federal enactment of the United States Congress that was signed into law on July 1, 1862, by President Abraham Lincoln. Sponsored by Justin Smith Morrill of ...
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Lot M. Morrill
Lot Myrick Morrill (May 3, 1813 – January 10, 1883) was an American politician who served as the 28th governor of Maine, as a United States senator, and as U.S. secretary of the treasury under President Ulysses S. Grant. An advocate for hard ...
, Governor of Maine, U.S. Senator, and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury under President Grant
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Mary Morrill
Mary Folger ( Morrell (Morrel/Morrill/Morrills/Morill); –1704) was the maternal grandmother of Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father of the United States. In Herman Melville's 1851 novel ''Moby-Dick'', she was cited as an ancestor of the Fol ...
, early Nantucket settler and grandmother of Benjamin Franklin
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Rowena Morrill
Rowena A. Morrill (September 14, 1944 – February 11, 2021), also credited as Rowena and Rowina Morril,"Rowina Morril" may be a typo, but has been used in multiple works even where the signature on the cover artwork is clearly "Rowena". The 22nd ...
, artist and illustrator
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Samuel P. Morrill
Samuel Plummer Morrill (February 11, 1816 – August 4, 1892) was a nineteenth-century politician and minister from Maine.
Born in Chesterville, Massachusetts (now in Maine), Morrill attended common schools as a child and later attended F ...
, U.S. Congressman from Maine
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Sam Morril
Sam Morril (born ) is an American stand-up comedian.
Early life
Morril was born in Chelsea, Manhattan, New York City. In a 2024 episode of the ''We Might Be Drunk'' podcast, Morril said that according to his 23andMe test, his ancestry is "a ...
, comedian
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Stew Morrill
Stewart Morrill (born July 25, 1952) is an American college basketball coach and the former head coach of the Utah State University men's basketball team.
Biography
Morrill was an All-American at Ricks College and a two-time All-Big Sky sele ...
, head coach of the Utah State University men's basketball team
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Walter Goodale Morrill
Walter Goodale Morrill (November 13, 1840 – March 3, 1935) was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Second Battle of Rappahannock S ...
, recipient of the Medal of Honor
See also
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Merrill (disambiguation) Merrill may refer to:
Places in the United States
*Merrill Field, Anchorage, Alaska
*Merrill, Iowa
* Merrill, Maine
* Merrill, Michigan
* Merrill, Mississippi, an unincorporated community near Lucedale in George County
*Merrill, Oregon
*Merrill, W ...
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Morrell
Morrell is a surname, and may refer to:
* Andy Morrell (born 1974), English footballer
* Arthur Fleming Morrell (1788-1880), English naval captain and explorer
* Arthur R.H. Morrell (1878–1968), a Deputy Master of Trinity House
* Benjamin Morrel ...
, a surname
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