Edmund Needham Morrill and Caroline Jenkins Nash

Edmund Needham Morrill

Born

12 FEB 1834 at Westbrook, Maine

Resided

1900^[1] at Hiawatha, Kans.

Died

14 MAR 1909^[2] at San Antonio, Tex.

Married

25 DEC 1869^[3] at Brookline, Maine

Father

Rufus Morrill

Mother

Mary Webb

Also m.

(2) Elizabeth A. Bretton

Edmund Needham Morrill attended school at Westbrook Academy and learned the trade of tanner from his father. At the age of 23, he removed to Kansas. In 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company C, Seventh Kansas Cavalry. Within a year he was promoted to Captain, and by 1865 he retired a Major. After the war he began his political career. In 1872 he was elected to the state senate. In 1882 he was elected to the U.S. Congress, serving four two-year terms before declining another, preferring instead to retire. Neverthe less at the urging of his friends, he accepted the nomination for Governor of Kansas in 1894 and served one term, being defeated for a second term in 1896.

Edmund Morrill enlisted as a Quartermaster Sergeant on 5 October 1861 in Company S, 7th Cavalry Regiment Kansas. He was promoted to Captain in 1862 and Brevet Major in 1865 just before he mustered out on 26 October 1865. ^[4]

Caroline Jenkins Nash

Born

1835^[5] at Boston, Mass.