Edmund Needham Morrill was a U.S. Congressman from Kansas and the 13th governor of Kansas.
Time in Office: January 14, 1895 - January 11, 1897
Born: February 12, 1834, Westbrook, Maine.
Died: March 14, 1909, San Antonio, Texas.
Republican banker from Hiawatha.
In 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company C, 7th Kansas Cavalry. Within a year, he was a captain, and by 1865 he was a major.
He served as president of the Kansas Historical Society in 1896.
He founded the Morrill Free Public Library at Hiawatha, Kansas in 1882.
He ounded the Hiawatha Academy, Hiawatha, Kansas in 1889.
Websites about this Governor
- Records of the Kansas Governor's Office : administration of Governor E. N. Morrill (1895-1897)
- Short Biography on the KSHS website
- Morrill Biography on Wikipedia
- Morrill Biography on the National Governors Association website.
- Edmund Needham Morrill-Jayhawker
- Morrill Biography in the Westbrook History Quarterly (PDF file)
- Morrill Papers Guide at the KSHS
- Morrill Message to the Kansas State Congress at the Kansas State Library (PDF)