 Frederick Douglass crossed Cecil County on his road to freedom in 1838.While Jacob Tome made his fortune in the area and stayed, other Cecil County natives left in search of economic opportunity.David Davis moved to Illinois upon graduating from Yale Law School in 1835, where he became Abraham Lincoln's law partner and later served in that legislature as well as a judge, before moving to Washington D.C. to help President Lincoln, who later named him to the United States Supreme Court.