Morrill, one of the incorporated towns of Brown county, is located on the St. Joseph & Grand Island R. R. 11 miles northwest of Hiawatha, the county seat. It has 4 churches, an accredited high school, 2 banks, a flour mill, a grain elevator, an opera house, a newspaper (the News), about 100 business establishments of various kinds, express and telegraph offices, and an international money order postoffice with two rural routes. The population, according to the census of 1910, was 398. The town was founded in 1878, although it had been settled many years before. The depot was built in 1877 and the high school building was erected in 1882.