* Morrill County, Nebraska-southwest

* Morrill County, Nebraska ( East )

Morrill County is a county located in the U. S. state of Nebraska.

In the Nebraska license plate system, Morrill County is represented by the prefix 64 ( it had the sixty-fourth-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922 ).

* Morrill County, Nebraska-west

* Morrill County, Nebraska-north

* Morrill County, Nebraska-south

* Morrill County, Nebraska-east

Morrill is a city in Brown County, Kansas, United States.

Morrill is a town in Waldo County, Maine, United States.

Morrill is situated in the central part of Waldo County, 6½ miles west of Belfast.

* Morrill Township, Morrison County ( north )

* Morrill Township, Morrison County ( northeast )

* Morrill Township, Morrison County ( northwest )

Morrill Township is a township in Morrison County, Minnesota, United States.

Bayard is a city in Morrill County, Nebraska, United States.

Category: Populated places in Morrill County, Nebraska

Bridgeport is a city in Morrill County, Nebraska, United States.

It is the county seat of Morrill County.

Category: Populated places in Morrill County, Nebraska

Broadwater is a village in Morrill County, Nebraska, United States.

Category: Populated places in Morrill County, Nebraska

Morrill County, Nebraska was named after him.

His mother, Abiah Folger, was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on August 15, 1667, to Peter Folger, a miller and schoolteacher and his wife Mary Morrill, a former indentured servant.

Iowa was the first state in the nation to accept the provisions of the Morrill Act of 1862.

Named for Justin Smith Morrill who created the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act, Morrill Hall was completed in 1891.

Kansas State University, originally named Kansas State Agricultural College, was founded on February 16, 1863, during the American Civil War, as a land-grant institution under the Morrill Act.

The school was the first land-grant college created under the Morrill Act.

Though it was a private institution to be located in the middle of urban Boston, the new institute had a mission that matched the intent of the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act to fund institutions " to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes ", and was thus named a land-grant school.

The Morrill Tariff of 1861 was a high protective tariff in the United States, adopted on March 2, 1861, during the administration of President James Buchanan, a Democrat.

Senator Lyman Trumbull of Illinois believed it was advisable that the bill should be introduced by an eastern congressman, and two months later Representative Justin Smith Morrill of Vermont introduced his bill.

The Morrill Act was first proposed in 1857, and was passed by Congress in 1859, but it was vetoed by President James Buchanan.

Aided by the secession of many states that did not support the plans, this reconfigured Morrill Act was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on July 2, 1862.

The state of Iowa was the first to accept the terms of the Morrill Act which provided the funding boost needed for the fledgling Ames College ( now Iowa State University.

A second Morrill Act in 1890 was also aimed at the former Confederate states.

This was the first federal land grant for a university, pre-dating the Morrill Act by more than 70 years.

It was named after Charles Henry Morrill, a president of the Lincoln Land Company.

It was named after Morrill C. Keith, the grandfather of Governor Keith Neville.

The Morrill Land-Grant College Act was approved by the U. S. Congress, and in 1863 the Missouri Legislature accepted this opportunity to set up a new type of higher education within the state.

East Alabama Male College was turned over to the state in 1872, and with funds from the federal Morrill Act was renamed Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College with a new mission as a land grant college.

Lakin township was formed in 1903 from the eastern half of Morrill Township.

Under the Morrill Act, Cornell received land scrip based on the population of the state, and the proceeds formed the basis of Cornell's initial endowment.