History of Minster, (Auglaize County) Ohio United States of America

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Joseph Dwenger, R.C. bishop, was born near Minster, Auglaize county, Ohio, Jane 1, 1837. He was educated in arts at Holy Trinity school, Cincinnati, Ohio, and in theology at Mr. St. Mary's seminary of the west. He was ordained to the priesthood, Sept. 4, 1859, and was director, professor and missionary priest at St. Charles Borromeo seminary of the Congregation of the Precious Blood, Carthagenia, Ohio, 1859-67. He then labored among mission stations in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, 1867-72, and was appointed bishop of Fort Wayne, as successor to the Rt. Rev. J. H. Lurens, D.D., deceased, and consecrated April 14, 1872, by Archbishop Purcell. In 1874 he went to Rome in the capacity of superior to the American pilgrims and made a second visit in 1883 on an official commission. In 1884 he attended the third plenary council in Baltimore and in 1885 represented the American hierarchy at Rome. He made his last visit to Pope Leo XIII. in 1888 on official business. He died in Fort Wayne, Ind., Jan. 29, 1893.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

John Joseph Enneking, painter, was born in Minster, O., Oct. 4, 1841; son of Joseph and Margereth (Bramlage) Enneking, and a descendant of Joseph Enneking, who came to America from Germany in 1811. He attended Mount St. Mary's college, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1853-60, and at the breaking out of the civil war he served a year in the Union army. He then studied art in New York and Boston, and in 1865 bought an interest in a firm engaged in the manufacture of tin ware and hardware. He again took up the study of art in 1873, and spent three years in Munich under the instruction of Schleich and Lier, and in Paris under Daubigny and Bonnat. In 1876 he opened a studio in Boston, Mass. In 1893 he was chairman of the advisory committee and chairman of the jury for the state of Massachusetts for the selection of pictures for the World's Columbian exposition. He also became much interested in parks, being a park commissioner and chairman of the Hyde Park commission for several years. He was elected a member of the Boston art club, the Paint and Clay club and the Twentieth Century club. Among his more important paintings are The Drove (1878); November Twilight (1880); Winter Twilight (1882); Summer's Twilight (1883); Cloudy Day in Summer (1884); The Coming Storm; Indian Summer; and November Twilight (1885); Spring time (1887); Old Lady darning Stockings (1887); October Twilight, exhibited at the World's fair, Chicago (1893); October Sunset (1895); Afterglow (1896).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor