 The Orphan School was built on the campus of the former Franklin Academy (from 1836), later Harford University, which had been founded in 1817.The village of Kingsley, within Harford Township, was named after original settler and Revolutionary War veteran Rufus Kingsley.In 1865, residents in the village of Harford (within Harford Township) circulated a petition to formally incorporate their village as a borough but the petition was denied by the state.