CLASS OF 1860

Henry Albert Morrill died May 13 at his home in Cambridge, Mass.

He was born in Potsdam, N. Y., February 13, 1835, being a son of Samuel and Martha (Tilton) Morrill, who were both natives of Vermont. At the age of four he came to live with his grandparents on a farm in Danville, Vt. He prepared for college at Thetford Academy.

In the fall of 1860. he taught at Lisbon, N. H., and then went to. Cincinnati, Ohio, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar in April, 1863. He began practice there at once, was successful from the start, and remained there until his retirement from practice and removal to Cambridge in 1908. In 1865 he became assistant corporation attorney for the city, and was corporation attorney from January 1, 1867, to April 1, 1869. In 1869 he became professor of the law. of contracts, torts, and crimes in Cincinnati Law School, and continued to teach in the school until his removal from the city, his chair being finally that of international law. He was actively interested in the introduction of the Harvard case system of instruction into the school. In 1876 he was a candidate on the Republican ticket for judge of the Court of Common Pleas, but was defeated with the rest of the ticket.

During his professional life he was connected as counsel with some of the most conspicuous cases ever litigated in southern Ohio. He was active in political and social movements as speaker and writer. In 1891 he lost his sight almmost entirely, but continued without interruption his work as practitioner and teacher of law.

In 1874 he published "The Relations between General Culture and the Practice and Study of the Law," and in 1879 "The Relations between the Roman and the English Law." Dartmouth made Mr. Morrill a Doctor of Laws in 1903, Wooster University having earlier (in 1891) conferred the same degree.

November 11, 1867, he was married to Anna, daughter of Alexander McGuffey of Cincinnati, who survives him, with three daughters and a son. The son is Albert H. Morrill '97, and one of the daughters is the wife of Daniel B. Ruggles '90.