Jonathan Baldwin Turner
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Jonathan Baldwin Turner was an American classical scholar, agriculturalist, and abolitionist. He also led a political movement to create agriculture colleges, and campaigned to institute land grant un
Turner in the 1860s
An Osage orange tree
Boulder dedicated to Turner's speech at the Granville Convention proposing land grant colleges. The plaque reads "This marker commemorates the Granville convention of November 18, 1851 at which Jonathan Baldwin Turner first proposed the plan for establishing higher institutions of scientific industrial learning by federal aid, a plan which laid the foundation of the University of Illinois and all the land grant colleges of the nation."
Justin S. Morrill
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Justin Smith Morrill was an American politician and entrepreneur who represented Vermont in the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate. He is most widely remembered for Morril
Jonathan Baldwin Turner
…Granville in 1851. He had laid out a plan for a national grant to provide an industrial and mechanical college for each US state. Vermont Representative Justin Morrill introduced a similar plan which became law as the Morrill Land-Grant Act in 1862. Jonathan Baldwin Turner was born December 7, 1805, outside Templeton…
Morrill, 1855–65
Justin Smith Morrill (pictured between 1865 and 1880)
Morrill Hall at Iowa State University, one of several Morrill Halls at colleges created by the Morrill Act
Mausoleum of Senator Justin Smith Morrill in Strafford, Vermont