Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Morrill, Dr John L 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Dr. John L. Morrill, practicing physician at Rock Falls, was born Oct. 19, 
1823, at Olean, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., and was reared in Napoli. He was the 
fourth in the family of Mastin and Sally (Osborn) Morrill, natives of Vermont. 
The senior Morrill was the first male child born in Danville, Vt., and was a 
farmer by vocation. The subject of this biographical notice remained at his 
parental home until of age, obtaining a liberal education. He taught school 
for a time, and then attended high school in Springfield, Erie Co., about 
three years. Then he taught eight years in graded and district schools, in the 
meantime taking up the study of medicine. Commencing to attend lectures in the 
fall of 1855, he was admitted to practice the next year. He taught school and 
practiced medicine until i860, when he made a trip to the Rocky Mountains. He 
visited Boulder City, when there was but one house in the place supplied with 
a floor; and Golden City, where men were engaged in digging for gold; and also 
Denver. He was on this tour from April to September. He then located in 
Yorktown, Bureau Co., Ill., where he followed his profession eight years, 
coming then, in 1867, to Rock Falls, since which date he has pursued his 
calling here. In the fall of that year he erected a residence, and the next 
year a store building, wherein he opened a stock of drugs; but this he 
afterward sold to O. A. Oliver & Co., who continued business in the same 
building for about eight years. Being signally successful, he has had a large 
practice. He has built one of the finest residences in the village, and three 
miles east he owns a valuable farm of 212 acres. Dr. Morrill was married Oct. 
28, 1863, to Louisa Smith, a native of Allegany Co., N. Y., and they have two 
children, viz.: Ella Francina, born Aug. 13, 1866, and Arthur Burdett, May 7, 
1872. In his political views the Doctor is a Republican, and both himself and 
wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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