MORRILL 819 MORRIN When at Epsom in 1797 he was appointed surgeon's mate of the 18th regiment of the mihtia, and was chosen town clerk and con- tinued in office until he removed from the town. In the summer of 1799 his mind experi- enced a material change in regard to religious subjects, in consequence of which he turned his attention almost entirely to theological reading. In October, ISCO, he began the study of systematic divinity under the direction of Rev. Jesse Remington, of Candia, New Hamp- shire. In June, 1801, he was examined by the Deerfield Association, and received appro- bation tq preach. March 2, 1802, he was or- dained pastor of the Congregational church and society in Goffstown, New Hampshire. He united with the Hopkinston (N. H.) Association, and in 1804 was appointed on a mission by the New Hampshire Missionary Society to the northern part of the State. Finding more than ordinary exercise neces- sary for his health, he, in 1807, resumed the practice of physic, in which he continued, though irregularly, until 1830. In July, 1811, he was dismissed from his pastoral relation with the church in Goffstown, New Hamp- shire, at his own request, on account of ill health. In 1808 he was chosen to represent Goffs- town in the General Court and was reelected until 1817. He was commissioned a justice of the peace in 1808, and his commission was seven times renewed, and was signed by seven different governors : Langdon. Plummer, Woodbury, Bell, Dinsmoor, Hill, and Hub- bard. In June, 1817, he was chosen speaker of the House of Representatives, and at the same session was elected by the two branches of the Legislature to represent New Hampshire in the Senate of the United States, six years from March, 1817. In March, 1823, he was elected to the Senate of the State of New Hampshire, and in June was chosen president of that body. He was elected Governor of New Hampshire in 1824. There being n.i choice by the people, he had a pluralitj' in convention of the two branches of the Legis- lature, 146 to 63, and in March, 1825, was chosen by the people, having 30,167 votes out of 30,770, and was re-elected in 1826. In 1831 he retired to private life. Governor Morrill received the honorary degree of Master of Arts and of Doctor of Medicine from Dartmouth Medical College in 1808, and the degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Vermont in 1823. He was a member and counsellor of the New Hamp- shire Medical Society, and a delegate of that society to attend the examination of medical students at Dartmouth Medical College. He was president of the Hillsboro County Agri- cultural Society, of the New Hampshire Mis- sionary Society, of the New Hampshire Col- onization Society, of the American Doctrinal Tract and Book Society, and of the New Hampshire Branch of the American Educa- tional Society. He was vice-president of the American Bible Society, of the American Sunday School Union, and of the American Home Mission Society. The following are Dr. Morrill's publica- tions : A Concise Letter on the Subject of Bap- tism, addressed to Rev. D. Morrill, 1806; two Funeral Sermons, 1811, 1819; Oration, July 4, 181S ; A Discourse before the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire, 1819; a Sermon on Divine Decrees, the Divine Glory, and Moral Agency, Luke 22:22; Observations on Genesis 3:4, 13, Thoughts on Rev. 20:10, printed in the Hop- kinsian Maga::ine, published at Providence, Rhode Island, 1828. Dr. Morrill also edited the New Hampshire Observer, a religious paper, for two years. September 25, 1794, Governor Morrill mar- ried for his first wife, Jane Wallace, of Epsom, New Hampshire, who died December 14, 1823, aged 53 years, leaving one child ; August 3, 1824, he married for his second wife, Lydia Poor of Goffstown, New Hampshire, by whom he had four sons. He died at Concord, New Hampshire, Janu- ary 28, 1849. Irving A. Watson. From Notes collected by the author. Morrin, Joseph (1794-1861) Joseph Morrin, one of Quebec's foremost physicians in the early part of the nineteenth century, was a partner of Dr. Douglas in the creation of the Quebec Lunatic Asylum, in 184S. He was born in Dumfriesshire, Scot- land, in 1794 and was brought to Canada at an early age by his parents, attending school in Quebec under Dr. Wilkie. He studied medicine in Quebec and in the London and Edinburgh universities and rose to high emi- nence in his profession, as well as taking a prominent part in public affairs, being twice elected mayor of Quebec. He was one of the three original governors of the Quebec Marine and Emigrant Hos- pital, where the first medical lectures ever given in the province were delivered in 1837.
