Andrew Ellicott (miller)

For other people named Andrew Ellicott, see Ellicott (disambiguation).
Ellicott, Andrew
Born Ellicott, Andrew
1733
Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Died 1809
Maryland
Nationality American
Children George, Johnathan, Elias[1]

Andrew Ellicott (1733 – 1809) was one of three Quaker brothers from Bucks County, Pennsylvania who chose the wilderness up river from Elk Ridge Landing (known today as Elkridge, Maryland) to establish a flour mill.[2] John, Andrew, and Joseph Ellicott founded Ellicott's Mills which became one of the largest milling and manufacturing towns in the East.[3]

The Ellicott brothers helped revolutionize farming in the area by persuading farmers to plant wheat instead of tobacco and also by introducing fertilizer to revitalize depleted soil.[4] Charles Carroll, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was an early influential convert from tobacco to wheat.[5] Andrew worked principally as a financier leaving his interests to his sons. [6] His sons Jonathan and George Ellicott built their home by the river in Oella, Maryland.[7]

Andrew Ellicott was the uncle of the famous surveyors Andrew Ellicott and Joseph Ellicott.

Notes

  1. ↑ Tyson, p. 44.
  2. ↑ Tyson, pp. 5-6.
  3. ↑ Tyson, p. 3.
  4. ↑ Tyson, p. 12.
  5. ↑ Tyson, p. 13.
  6. ↑ James Clark Jr. Jim Clark Soldier Farmer Legislator. p. 23.
  7. ↑ Janet P. Kusterer, Victoria Goeller. Remembering Ellicott City: Stories from the Patapsco River Valley. p. 27.

References

Tyson, Martha Ellicott (1871). A Brief Account of the Settlement of Ellicott's Mills, with Fragments of History therewith Connected: Written at the request of Evan T. Ellicott, Baltimore, 1865: Read before the Maryland Historical Society, Nov. 3, 1870. Maryland Historical Society: Fund-Publication, No. 4. Baltimore: Printed by J. Murphy: Printer to the Maryland Historical Society. p. 44. OCLC 2311761. Retrieved 2016-02-21. 


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