The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-04-01

oGRApHED Ry SHoREY, BALT., MD.
personally as well as officially, he soon put
an end to the unequal contest. A pile of
lap wood lay beside the old-fashioned ten
plate stove Tome seized the stick nearest
his hand, and by few well directed blows,
so chastised his burly pupil, that perfect
order was afterwards maintained, and ne
cessary discipline secured.
The branches taught in the school were
the ordinary lessons in reading, writing,
spelling and arithmetic The young teacher
had been installed in his position but few
days, when he discovered that some of his
pupils were as far if not further advanced
in arithmetic than himself. To meet this
difficulty, and to keep from his scholars
any suspicion of his deficiency, on a Satur-
day afternoon, that being a holiday, he
walked twenty four miles to distant town,
and procured key to the arithmetic, to be
prepared for this emergency on the open
ing of his school on Monday morning.
trate the determination and perseverance
that characterized Mr.. Tome at that youth
full period of his life. After having finished
his engagement as school teacher satisfac-
torily to the trustees, in the Spring of 1888
he came to Port Deposit, and was employed
for short time at Boggs' Hotel. Having
determined to fit himself for business pur-
suits, he left Port Deposit in the following
December and went to Philadelphia, where
he studied bookkeeping during the Win
ter. On the 23rd of March, 1884, he re
turned to Port Deposit, and engaged as
clerk with Messrs. Downey & Montgomery.
then lumber dealers, doing business extern
sively on the old bank wharf. He remained
with Downey & Montgomery, devoting him
self industriously to business. and exhibit
ing rare facility in the requirement of
business knowledge until March, 1888.
During this period his activity, industry
and business capacity had attracted the
attention of David Rnehart, a wealthy
banker and lumber merchant of Marietta,
of visiting Port Deposit in the Spring and
Fall lumber seasons, to make sale of lum-
Der, and transact business with the manu-
tacturerS and dealers, with whom he had
extensive transactions. In the Spring of
this year 1885 Mr.. Rinehart proposed a
business connection with Mr.. Tome, which
was accepted by the latter, Mr.. Rinehart
furnishing $1,000 cash capital against
Tones services, and the firm of Tome &
Rinehart, lumber Dealers commenced bust
ness. From 1885 to 1851, this firm had
uninterrupted business success, and did the
largest business in timber, lumber and shin
giles that was done on the Susuuehanna
river by any one firm. On the dissolution
Of this partnership by the death of Mr..
Rinehart in 1851, after all the profits that
each had drawn from time to time out of
the business, the capital invested at the
time of the dissolution was over 800, 600.
Mr.. Edwin J. Rinehart, son of David Rine
hart, who, some time previous to the death
of his father, had been clerking for the
firm of Tome & Rinehart, succeeded to his
fathers interest in the business. and the
style of the firm was continued us Tome &
Rinehart.
This partnership was dissolved in 1853
each partner continuing in the lumber bust
ness. In the Spring Of 1855, Mr.. Tome
formed a CO. partnership with Messrs. John
and Thomas Bond, styling the firm Bond
Brother & Co., who continue the lumber
business originally built up by Jacob Tome,
as the active partner of the firm of Tome
K Rinehart. The firm of Bond Brother &
Co.. of which Mr.. Tome is the capitalist.
in addition to an extensive lumber business
done by them at Port Deposit, also owns
about twenty thousand acres of timber
lands in Pennsylvania, as we'll as ten thou
sand acres of similar lands in the State OF
Michigan. Beside the firm just referred
to. Mr. Tome is also largely engaged i'll the
grain, fertilizer and agricultural trade in
Port Deposit with his nephew by marriage.
Mr. Joseph Reynolds, under the firm of J.
Tome x Co. In the year 1S49, Mr.. Tome
formed business connection with the
Messrs. Taylor and John S. Cuttings, of
/ Baltimore, who were the owners of the
steamer Portsmouh, plying between Port
Deposit and that city, aud afterwards pur-
chased the steamers Lancaster and Juni4ta
of the opposition line, and consolidated the
| two companies. running the three steamers
for passengers and freight, and towing
canal boats from the Susquehanna and
/ Tide Water Canal. This line proved a
success, and is still in operation with two
side-wheel steamers and three tugs. In
the year 1865, this Company, with Capt.
Mason l.. WeemS, organized the Baltimore
and fredericksburg Steamboat Co., run
| ING two steamers, the Winn0ndh and Ma
I tilda, and continued to run this line until
1 the year 1874, when, after the death OF
/ Capt. Weems, the Company transferred
/ their interests in the line to his heirs,
I who now control it. In the course of his
! extended business transactions, Mr.. Tome
has become large property holder. In
/ addition to the numerous dwellings, store
houses, wharf and warehouse properties
held by him i'll Port Deposit, he is also
owner of twelve thousand acres of timber
land i'll Porter county, Pennsylvania, III
addition to the timber lands held by the
firm of Bond Brother & Co. He also owns
four or five valuable farms in Cecil county,
and farm of three hundred acres in Car
ron county, Maryland beside valuable
property in Baltimore City and elsewhere,
and large personal estate, consisting o
private securities, bonds and mortgages.
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