Justin Smith Morrill: Father of the Land-Grant Colleges

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INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND PLACES Agricultural College of Michigan, 78, 87 Amistad captives, 11 Benedict, G. G., editor, Burlington Free Press, 101, 143-44 Blaine, James j., Congressman, 52, 96, 105, 107, 111-14 Boutwell, George, Treasury Secretary, 123-24 Buchanan, James, President, 29, 34, 36,44-45,57,82-83 Cameron, Simon, Senator, 50, 134-35,139 Chase, Salmon, Treasury Secretary, 55,60-72 Clark, Edward, architect, 129-30, 135 Clay, Henry, Congressman, 19, 23-24,41-43 Cobb, Williamson R. W., Congressman, 79-80, 82 Colfax, Schuyler, Congressman, 26, 69, 100 Collamer, Jacob, Vermont Senator, 95-97, 103, 133 Cooke, Henry, Governor District of Columbia Territory, 133 Davis, Henry Winter, Congressman, 45,48,58 Dillingham, Paul, Vermont Governor, 97, 101 Downing, Andrew Jackson, author, 12 Edmunds, George, Vermont Senator, 102 Fairbanks, Erastus, Vermont Governor, 100 Fessenden, William Pitt, Senator, Treasury Secretary, 72, 117-18, 121 Foot, Solomon, Vermont Senator, 21, 27,101,103 Grant, U. S., President, 118-19, 130 Greeley, Horace, editor, New York Tribune, 104, 119-20, 132-33 Greene, Luther 0., editor, Vermont Standard, 98, 101 Harris, Jedediah H.: mentor and partner , 3, 5-7; family, 7, 9-10, 12, 14-5; death, 15,20,26,98 Hayes, Rutherford B., President, 124-25 Hunt, Jacob, uncle, 7-8 James, Edward J., Illinois College President, 86-7 157 JUSTIN SMITH MORRILL Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 26-27 Lane, James, Senator, 83-4 McCullough, Hugh, Treasury Secretary, 106-7, 121-23 Lincoln, Abraham, President, 49, 55-57,59-61,65-66,69,72, 84-85 Morrill family: Abraham (great, great, great-grandfather), 1; Amos (brother), 3; Caroline B. (older sister ), 2; Caroline (younger sister), 3; Daniel (uncle), 2; David (uncle), 2; Edna Carpenter (sister), 2, 10; Joseph (uncle), 2; Mary (grandmother ), 1-4; Mary Hunt (mother), 2, 105; Nathaniel (father), 1-3, 15; Nathaniel B. (brother), 3; Sidney (brother), 2; Smith (grandfather), 1-3; Stephen (uncle), 2; Wilbur F. (brother), 3 Morrill, James Swan, son: 15, 72, 132, 144-46; death 146 Morrill, Justin Harris, son: 14-15,27 Morrill, Justin Smith: ancestors, 1-3; anti-polygamy fight, 34-37; apprenticeship, 6-9; birth, 2; birthday parties, 130-31; blacks, attitudes about, 11; Building and Grounds Committee Chair, 129; capitol, reverence for, 134; capitol grounds, 134-35; Committee of Thirty-Three, 57-59; Congress, elected to, 25-26; death, 139, 144; education, 4-5; Europe, visits to, 111-14,132; family, 2-3; Finance Committee Chair, 125; funeral, 144-45; Hall of Statuary, 133; health, 143; home in Strafford, 12-3; home in Washington, 129-31; integrity of, 99; investments , 10; Library of Congress building, 136-39; lobbyists, dislike of, 99; Joint Committee of Reconstruction, 107; marriage, 13-14; Morrill Tariff of 1857, 45-50; Morrill Tariff of 1862, 66; partnership with Harris, 9; physical description, 8-9, 95-6; political background, 20; Portland, Maine, life in, 7-9; President Johnson, impeachment of, 114-18; protectionist views, 42-43; reciprocity, 70-72; religious beliefs, 8; retirement , 12; salary grab, opposition of, 120-21; Senate, elected to, 105; Self Consciousness of Noted Persons, 131; sense of humor, 8; Smithsonian Institute, service on board of, 131; sons, birth of, 14-15; Supreme Court building, 138-39; thrift, 99; trip west, 11-2; Ways and Means Committee, appointed to, 44; Washington Monument, completion of, 135-36; Washington visit of 1841, 12; will, 145; women, attitudes towards, 8-9, 11 Morrill, Ruth Barrel Swan, wife: 13-15, epilepsy 13-14,27-28,57, 59, 72, 111, 113, 132; death, 144 Norwich Academy (University), 79, 87 Olmstead, Frederick Law, landscape architect, 134-35 Parker, J. W. D., Vermont politician, 20,25-6 Partridge, Alden, President Norwich Academy, 78-9, 87 People's College of New York, 78, 80, 87 Poland, Luke, Vermont Congressman, 96-7, 100-5 Portland, Maine, 7-9 Proctor, Redfield, Vermont Senator, 143 Randolph Academy, 7 Shepherd, Alexander, Governor District of Columbia Territory, 133 158 INDEX Sherman, John, Senator, Treasury Secretary, 26, 46, 48, 60, 65, 124-26 Smith, Joseph, founder Latter-Day Saints, 35, 37 Spaulding Eldridge, Congressman, 60, 64 Stevens, Thaddeus, Congressman, 60-1,64-7,69-72,122 Strafford, Vermont, description (1810),3 Sumner, Charles, Senator, 31, 119-20 Swan, Louise, sister-in-law: 15, 144-46; death 146 Thetford Academy, 7 Tracy, Andrew, Vermont Congressman, 19 Turner, Jonathan B., Illinois educator, 78, 86-87 Wade, Benjamin, Senator, 82-84 Walton, E. P., editor...