Samuel Plummer Morrill, (1816-1892) a U.S. Representative, was born in Chesterville on February 11, 1816, attended the common schools and Farmington Academy.
He studied theology; was ordained a minister and held pastorates in Farmington from 1848 to 1853. Elected in 1857 for a five-year term as register of deeds for Franklin County, he was reelected in 1862.
Morrill was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871), but was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1870. He resumed his ministerial duties in East Dixfield (1877-1879), then moved to Vienna in 1885. Morrill retired from the ministry in 1886 and died in Chesterville on August 4, 1892, with interment in Chesterville Hill Cemetery.
Additional resources
Samuel Plummer Morrill Congressional Biography: https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=M000971 (accessed January 1, 2021)