JUSTIN SMITH MORRILL
Justin Smith Morrill, of Strafford, was born at Strafford, Vt., April 14, 1810; received a common-school and academic education; was a merchant, and afterwards engaged in agricultural pursuits; was a Representative in the Thirty-Fourth, Thirty-Fifth, Thirty-Sixth, Thirty-Seventh, Thirty-Eighth, and Thirty-Ninth Congresses; was elected to the United States Senate as a Union Republican, to succeed Luke P. Poland, Union Republican, and took his seat March 4, 1867; was reëlected in 1872, in 1878, in 1884, in 1890, and in 1896. He was a regent of the Smithsonian Institution from 1880 until his death. His term of service would have expired March 3, 1903, but on the 28th of December, 1898, the aged Senator died at his residence in Washington. D. C., after a short illness.
