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 204 ENNEKING. ERNST. some hours a week to music and drawing ; in the latter study being much encour- aged by the kindly advice of the principal of the college, President Rosecrans, a brother of General Rosecrans. His career at the college was cut short by the breaking out of the civil war. After serving the cause of the Union in one capacity and another, having many hair-breadth escapes, he was at last se- verely wounded and laid up for many months. When convalescent he visited an exhibition of oil paintings in Cincinnati, which created in him a strong desire to become an artist. Not finding the advan- tages in the West great for the study of art, he turned his face towards the East. After a short stay in New York, he came to Boston and commenced to draw on stone under Professor Richardson. He was compelled to abandon this after a short time, owing to trouble with his eyes. He then went into business, but lost all his money in a few years. He then worked for several years in pastel, and from that branched into oil painting. He was married in 1864, in Boston, to Mary E. Elliott, by whom he has five chil- dren : John Joseph, Florence May, Mary Emily, Gracie Clara, and Joseph Elliott. In 1S73 he went to Europe with his family, traveling through England, Hol- land, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy, and France. After spending six months in Munich, Bavaria, studying landscape painting and drawing of the figure, and three months sketching in Venice, he went to Paris ; studying the art exhibits of the different countries at the Vienna exposi- tion, he concluded that Paris must be the Mecca for art students. Here he entered the school of Bonnat, one of the cele- brated schools of art at that time, where he studied the figure for three years, and landscape painting for a short time under the great landscape painter, Daubigny. He returned home in time to see the centennial exposition. He opened a studio on West Street, and after two successful seasons went abroad again, visiting the Paris Exposition, and made a three months' trip to Holland ; there he studied the Dutch masters in the galleries of the Hague, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and other places, and returned after six months' absence. For the last five years he has had a studio on Tremont Street, Boston, and his summer studio near his residence in Hyde Park. Mr. Enneking has received several gold and silver medals for excellence in his art, and his works may be found in many of the best collections in this country. He is a member of the Boston Art and the Paint and Clay clubs. ERNST, GEORGE A. O., son of Andrew H. and Sarah G. Otis Ernst, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 8, 1850. His father was a native of Germany, and his GEORGE A O ERNST. mother was born in Boston. He is a grand- son of George A. Otis, well known in the early literary history of Boston. His early school life was passed in the private schools of Cincinnati. He was afterward sent to Mount Pleasant Military Academy, Sing Sing, New York, then to the Eliot high school, of Jamaica Plain, Mass., and lastly to prepare for college in one of the private schools of Boston. He was graduated from Harvard Uni- versity, class of 1 87 1. Taking up the study of law, he was soon admitted to practice in Boston, where he has already won for him- self an enviable position in his chosen pro- fession. He was sent to Chicago in 1880 as one of the committee of " Young Republicans," to advance the interests of civil service reform in the convention which nominated Garfield. He was elected to the lower branch of the Legislature in 1883 and '84, and served on the committees on elections