Ernst C. Rost (1866 - 1940)

"Ernest C. Rost was born January 20, 1866, at Mt. Vernon, N.Y. By the mid 1880's, E.C. Rost was exhibiting landscapes in oil at the National Academy of Design, N.Y. City. After 1887 his oil painting stopped and by 1891 etching became his primary occupation. By 1898 Rost had apparently given up etching and entered photography full-time...Still, photography was not his only occupation during this period, for he began writing, too. Between 1899 and 1900, at least seven articles by Rost appeared in the popular 'Leslie's Illustrated Weekly Newspaper'..."