Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . ofBoston, and the latter of Goffstown, , was bo^nin Boston March 6, 1844. His fiither was a Har-vard graduate, and a well-known Boston lawyer inhis day. James S. was also educated at Hansard,graduating in 1867. He studied law with his fatherand was admitted to the bar in September, and son practised in partnershijj until thedeath of the former in 1883. Since that time has been alone at No. 68 Cornhill, wherehis father be
Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . ofBoston, and the latter of Goffstown, , was bo^nin Boston March 6, 1844. His fiither was a Har-vard graduate, and a well-known Boston lawyer inhis day. James S. was also educated at Hansard,graduating in 1867. He studied law with his fatherand was admitted to the bar in September, and son practised in partnershijj until thedeath of the former in 1883. Since that time has been alone at No. 68 Cornhill, wherehis father began in 1859. His practice is confinedto trusts and probate business. He is a Democratin politics, as was his father. Ernst, George A. 0., son of Andrew H. andSarah G. (Otis) Ernst, was born in Cincinnati, O.,Nov. 8, 1850. His father was born in Germany, and his mother was a native of Boston, daughter ofGeorge Alexander Otis. He was educated in Cin-cinnati private schools, the Mount Pleasant Mili-tary Academy, Sing Sing, , the Flliot HighSchool in Jamaica Plain, Boston private schools, andHarvard College, graduating from the latter in the. GEORGE A. O. ERNST. class of 1871. He studied law in the office ofRopes & Gray for two years, then in the HarvardLaw School, and later in the office of J. B. Rich-ardson. He was admitted to the bar in Feliruary,1875, and has since practised in Boston. In June,1880, he was sent to the Republican National Con-vention at Chicago as one of a committee repre-senting the Massachusetts Voung Re])ublicans, tosecure a civil-ser\-ice reform plank in the partyplatform. In 1883 and 1884 he was a member ofthe lower house of the State Legislature, serving onimportant committees, and taking an influential partin legislation. Mr. Ernst has also devoted some timeto literature. He has translated two novels, TheWidow Lerouge (published by James R. Osgood& Co.) and The Clique of Gold; and hasadapted three plays from the French, — .\ Christ-mas Supper, The D
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