This house was appropriately called the “Weber House” because the property was owned from 1863 to 1976 by members of the Weber family. In 1863 Philip A. Weber (1843-1879) and his wife, Margaret, bought the two lots from John A. Hopper and his wife, Elizabeth T. Hopper, and is believed to have built this home facing east at the southwest corner of Union Avenue and Pennington Avenue. It was painted white with green trim and had two staircases, one in the front and the other led up from the kitchen in the rear. Margaret Weber preceded Philip A. Weber in death and when Philip died at a young age it became the property of their only son, Walter H. Weber (1869-1941).

Walter H. Weber later married Wilhelmina Taylor Weber (1870-1956), and they lived in this house in the 1890s, where they had a greenhouse on their property and operated a florist business with a delivery wagon. In 1905 Walter advertised that they sold “Flowers for all Occasions.” Walter and Wilhelmina had two sons—one was Philip W. Weber (1904-1971) who later married Irene Weber; the other was W. Lewis Weber (1906-1945); and they had two daughters, Bertha, who later married Homer Simonds; and Margaret (1889-1980), who later married Leon Bradfield. A colorful article appeared in The Washington Times on August 23, 1899, concerning storm damage to this Weber House:

“In Harford the rainfall Monday evening was general throughout most parts of the county and attended by unusual violence from the western border of the county through to the Susquehanna River. Previous to the storm a peculiar condition of the atmosphere and clouds was noticeable. At sunset the sky in the west was fiery red, which color later faded to saffron, until it seemed to hang, like yellow mist, over the earth, while sheet lightning quivered continuously on the northern horizon. During the progress of the rain, forked lightning in frequent flashes illuminated the heavens, accompanied by thunder peals of startling loudness. The storm began about 8 o'clock and continued with more or less severity until midnight. . . In Havre de Grace two houses were struck by lightning, one belonging to. . . Walter Weber. A considerable hole was torn in the roof of the Weber House and part of the chimney thrown down. The family were badly frightened. The Steamer Susquehanna had just made her pier on the down trip from Port Deposit to Betterton with a moonlight excursion on board. There were several hundred people on the steamer. When the blast came one of the pilings to which the vessel was moored was pulled up, the hawser at the other end was parted, and the steamer went out in the river, where she was put head-to, and laid until the storm subsided.”

The steamer “Susquehanna” had been first launched by Reeder & Sons of Baltimore to make regular runs with up to 1,200 passengers and 300 tons of freight between Port Deposit, Betterton, Havre de Grace, and Baltimore.

Well known locally, Walter Weber served on the City Council and also was Mayor from 1911-1913. He and Wilhelmina’s first daughter, Bertha Weber, born in 1891, met and married Homer Lee Simonds when he came to Maryland in 1912. Homer Simonds was inducted in 1918 for WWI and made Private First Class September 1918. He served with the 56th Company 15th Battalion in Syracuse, New York, and finally the 19th Company 154th Depot Brigade in March 1919. He contracted scarlet fever while in the service and after pneumonia set in he died in March 1919. Private Simonds is on the Honor Roll at Tydings Park under Those Who Made the Supreme Sacrifice. His wife, Bertha Weber Simonds, was laid to rest with him just two years later at the age of 27.

When Walter died in 1941 he left a will stipulating that this property go to Wilhelmina but that upon her death the large part of the property should go to their daughter, Margaret Bradfield, and a smaller part go to son, Lewis Weber. Four years after his father, however, Lewis also died. When Wilhelmina died in 1956 the property, which was to go to Margaret A. Bradfield, was sold by Margaret and her husband Leon W. Bradfield to Philip W. Weber (1904-1971) and Irene Weber (Margaret’s brother).

Philip W. Weber and Irene had a son in 1931 that they also named Philip W. Weber, and a daughter in 1940, Carol Ann, who married David Edge. Darryl Malloy remembers attending Pack 812 Cub Scout meetings in the house in the 1960s with Mrs. Logan as the den mother. Darryl Malloy remembers attending Pack 812 cub scout meetings in the house. Philip W. Weber, Sr. died in 1971, having worked for the C&P Telephone Company, and when Irene died two years later, she bequeathed the property to her daughter, Carol Ann Edge. Carol sold the property in 1976 to Carey E. Snyder, a real estate investor.

In 1982, Carey Snyder sold this property to Harford County, Maryland, because they wished to build a library on this lot. They held an auction in the house before demolishing it and Aaron Willis remembers getting a large stuffed toy panther at the auction. That library was built here in 1987 in this double lot but by October 2014 that library was deemed inadequate and was demolished completely. By 2016, a brand new 21,164 square-foot brick library was constructed in its place, with the address of 120 North Union Avenue.