Letter from Justin S. Morrill to Jonathan Baldwin Turner, December 30, 1861
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Title | Letter from Justin S. Morrill to Jonathan Baldwin Turner, December 30, 1861 |
Creator | Morrill, Justin S. |
Date | 1861-12-30 |
Decade | 1860s |
Description | Letter written from Justin S. Morrill, serving in the US House of Representatives, to Jonathan Baldwin Turner. In this letter, Morrill writes that he is happy to sign this bill into a law, thus coming one step closing to founding a land grant university in Illinois. Morrill is best known for establishing land grant universities through the Land Grant College Act, also named the Morrill Act. |
Extent | 1 sheet (1 page) |
Dimensions | 12.75 cm x 20 cm |
Language | eng |
Geographic Subject | Washington (D.C.) |
Genre Subject | Correspondence |
Collection/Series, subseries/box/folder | MS 333: Correspondence: Incoming; Box 1, Folder: 1854-1866 |
Collection Title | Jonathan Baldwin Turner Papers |
Rights | No Copyright - United States |
Acquisition information | Donated by Mary Turner Carriel in 1913 or by her son Reverend Charles A. Carriel in 1939. |
Repository | Illinois History and Lincoln Collections |
Type | |
Identifier | 0333_003_003_17 |
Collection | Jonathan Baldwin Turner Papers (Digitized Content) |
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