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]
^James Clark Jr. Jim Clark Soldier Farmer Legislator. p. 23.
^Janet P. Kusterer, Victoria Goeller. Remembering Ellicott City: Stories from the Patapsco River Valley. p. 27.
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Tyson, Martha Ellicott (1871). A Brief Account of the Settlement of Ellicott's Mills, with Fragments of History therewith Connected. Baltimore: J. Murphy (printer). p. 44. OCLC 2311761. Retrieved 2016-02-21. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
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