The act was introduced by Congressman Justin S. Morrill from Vermont and was signed into law on July 2, 1862 by President Abraham Lincoln.

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The University of Washington's Richard Morrill notes that the WPA bequeathed "an enduring legacy" around Seattle: bridges and retaining walls and drainage systems, parks and playgrounds, roads and trails, sewers, recreational facilities, airports, streetcars, low-income housing, as well as programs for musicians, artists and writers.

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Some of the cages in which O'Hanlon's fish will grow will likely come from another Aquacopia-funded company, Ocean Farm Technologies of Morrill, Maine, founded by Stephen Page, a former salmon farmer.

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" Justice Kennedy, the court's great middle man, puckishly noted: "The Marshall Plan was very good, too, the Morrill Act, the Northwest Ordinance, but times change.

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