Morrill, Milton M.

Born: 1820-09-15 Maine

Died: 1892-02-13 Nauvoo, Illinois

Flourished: 1845 to 1892 Hancock County, Illinois

Milton M. Morrill, attorney and public official, studied law with his brother, Lot M. Morrill. He moved permanently to Hancock County, Illinois, in 1845 and commenced a legal practice there, partnering with William C. Hooker in Nauvoo in the 1850s in the legal firm of Morrill & Hooker. In politics, Morrill was a Democrat and a supporter of Stephen A. Douglas. He was elected an associate justice of the Hancock County Court in 1849, county prosecuting attorney in 1851, and served as a delegate to the 1862 Illinois Constitutional Convention. Morrill represented Hancock County in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1863 to 1865 and again from 1871 to 1872. He married Melvina A. Hibard in 1847 and the pair had children. Morrill was a Freemason.

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