Morrill, Anson Peaslee
 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF NATIVES OF MAINE
            WHO HAVE SERVED IN THE CONGRESS
                     OF THE UNITED STATES
                           (By John C. Stewart)
  printed in Sprague's Journal Vol 11 page 36-42

                   Morrill, Anson Peaslee, a Representative from Maine;
                born in Belgrade, June 10, 1803; attended the public schools;
                engaged in mercantile and manufacturing pursuits in 1824;
                postmaster; held local offices; moved to Madison and then to
                Readfield in 1844; member of state house of representatives
                in 1833; sheriff of Somerset County in 1839; Governor of
                Maine in 1855; delegate to the national Republican convention

                     42 SPRAGUE'S JOURNAL OF MAINE HISTORY

                     in 1856; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress
                     (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863) ; moved to Augusta in 1879;
                     member of the state house of representatives in 1880; presi-
                     dent of Maine Central Railroad 1871-1887; died in Augusta,
                     July 4, 1887.
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