 Charles Alexander Tomes

Charles Alexander Tomes (October 25, 1854 – July 28, 1933) was an American merchant in the Far East in the employment of Shewan, Tomes & Co.

C. A. Tomes was born on October 25, 1854 in New York City.He was the eldest son of Eleanor Tomes (née Hadden) (1820–1894), and Francis Tomes Jr. (1813–1898), who was a prominent merchant who owned until 1877 a large Victorian mansion, on Putnam Avenue in Greenwich, Connecticut, that had been designed by Calvert Vaux with a landscape design by Frederick Law Olmsted.