Son of Laban Morrill and Permelia Handmore Drury

Married Elizabeth Isola Davis, 28 Jan 1887, St. George, Washington, Utah

Married Emma Alice Hoyt, 14 Feb 1899, Manti, Sanpete, Utah

History - Horace Morrill was the true pioneer spirit, and his was large influence in the civic and material development of various communities in his native state. He was at the time of his death one of the prominent and influential exponents of ranch industry in the Tridell district of Uintall County, and here he passed away in the year 1930, an honored citizen who ever commanded unqualified popular confidence and esteem.

Mr. Morrill was born at Cedar Fort, Utah County, Utah, July 18, 1863, his father, Laban Morrill, having been born and reared in Vermont, a representative of a family that was founded in New England in the Colonial days. Laban Morrill was converted to the faith of the Latter Day Saints and became a pioneer settler in Utah, where he passed the remainder of his life. An uncle of the subject of this memoir was author of a congressional bill for the creation of land-grant colleges in the United States.

Horace Morrill and his brothers depended largely upon their own resources in acquiring education, all became men of broad information and mature judgment, and all were influential and honored citizens of the various communities in which they lived.

Horace Morrill became a successful pioneer in ranch enterprise in Piute County and within the period of his residence there he served as county clerk, he having been an exceptionally fine penman and notably efficient in office detail, as the records of that county attest. In the year 1919 Mr. Morrill established residence in the Maeser Ward of Uintah County, and later made settlement in the Tridell community, where he passed the remainder of his life and where he assisted prominently in the development of the frontier community into one of modern facilities and conditions. He had much of leadership in the varied movements that made for civic and material development and progress, and was the instigator of the movement that led to the construction of the present Paradise Park irrigation reservoir, the service of which has proved of inestimable value, though at the beginning there was much opposition to the project. As an earnest member of the Latter Day Saints Church Mr. Morrill served as a member of the Bishop's Council and also as bishop of the Tridell community, his administration in these two offices having covered a period of sixteen years, within which was erected the fine brick church at Tridell.