Complex sentence: Soon, Joseph moved to the F.H. Eaton store, and first became a partner and then bought out the business in 1849, renaming it The Joseph Horne Company, a name it would bear for more than 130 years.
Split into simpler sentences: Soon, Joseph moved to the F.H. Eaton store, and first became a partner. He bought out the business in 1849, renaming it The Joseph Horne Company, a name it would bear for more than 130 years.