Harford County MD, organized in 1773, is bounded on the east and southeast by Susquehanna River and Chesapeake Bay, north by Pennsylvania, and on the west and southwest by Baltimore County. The surface is varied, the lower part being level, while above the Philadelphia turnpike it is undulating and quite hilly in some parts. It is well drained by the branches of the Little Gunpowder Falls in the lower part, while Deer Creek and its branches drain the northern part. The area is 388 square miles, of which almost three-fourths, or 174,255 acres, was under cultivation in 1900. The population for the same year was 28,269. The county seat is Belair.
Ellen Wheeler Pease, born March 1, 1824, in Baltimore County, Maryland, passed away on December 9, 1899, at her son’s home in Chelsea, aged 74. She married Louis Pease in 1847, who predeceased her. Ellen is survived by six children, twenty grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. She was a respected member of her community and the Methodist Episcopal Church. Her remains were interred beside her husband in Brooklyn on December 12, 1899.