Editing Stephen Guernsey Cook Ensko (section)

==Biography==
Stephen was born in 1896 in [[Manhattan, New York City]] to [[Robert Ensko]] (1855&ndash;1934) and Mary Elizabeth Blakeley (1857&ndash;?). His siblings include: Robert Ensko II (1880&ndash;1971) who worked as a lace dealer; Charlotte Ensko (1882–?) who married Milton Ernest Horn (1876&ndash;1929); Lamont Northrope Ensko (1890&ndash;1987) who worked in the family silver business; Elathene Amanda Ensko (1898&ndash;1981) who married George Robert Christie (1895&ndash;1996); and William Edward Ensko (c1900&ndash;1918) who was a [[sergeant]] in the [[United States Army|US Army]] who was killed in a car accident in France during [[World War I]].<ref name=auto>{{citation |title=Sergeant William E. Ensko |quote=Mrs. Mary E. Ensko, of 1383 Dean street, has been notified by the War Department that her son, Sergeant William Edward Ensko of Company A, 318th Pioneer Engineers, was killed in an automobile accident at the front on July 28. He was born in New York City, 30 years ago, where he was educated. Sergeant Ensko resigned a responsible position to enlist at Port Slocum last September. He lived at Freeport, L. I., where he was a member of the Freeport Lodge of Elks. A brother, Corporal La Mont N. Ensko, is in France with Company B, 304th Machine Gun Battalion. |work=[[Brooklyn Eagle]] |date=August 15, 1918 }}</ref> <!-- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) says: more detailed info in wikisource -->

Stephen married Dorothea J. Winterloff (1892&ndash;1977) of Germany on June 4, 1918 in [[Manhattan]] and they had three children: Dorothea Charlotte Ensko (1920&ndash; ) who married Vernon Charles Wyle (1913&ndash;1986);<ref>{{cite news |title=Dorothea Ensko Wed to Officer in Navy. Wheaton College Alumna Bride of Lieutenant Commander Vernon C. Wyle. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1944/06/04/archives/dorothea-ensko-wed-to-officer-in-navy-wseaton-college-alumna-bride.html |work=[[New York Times]] |date=June 4, 1944|access-date=2007-08-21 }}</ref> Stephen William Ensko (1922&ndash;1945) who was a [[2nd Lieutenant]] in the [[United States Army|US Army]] who was [[killed in action]] in [[World War II]]; and Alice Elizabeth Ensko (1924-1999) who married George M. Keller II on December 24, 1944, and later married [[Alfred Woodward]] (1913-2007), the [[Illinois]] judge.<ref>{{cite news |title=Alice Ensko Bride of G. M. Keller, Jr. Has 3 Attendants at Marriage to Lieutenant in Air Arm Who Served in Pacific. |work=[[New York Times]] |date=December 24, 1944}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Keller-Ensko Ceremony Solemnized in New York.|work=[[Washington Post]] |date=December 24, 1944 }}</ref> <!-- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) says: Dorothea's maiden name is still unknown. It should be available on her death certificate. Information may be available in the New York Times article on the marriage of Ensko to Wyle -->

Stephen registered for the draft on June 5, 1918 but he did not serve. At the time he was working as an antique dealer at 598 [[Madison Avenue]], and he was living in [[Freeport, New York]] on [[Long Island]].<ref>[[World War I]] draft registration</ref><!--In 1930 Stephen was living at 40-20 205th Street, Bayside, in Queens, and had a servant living in the household.<ref>[[1930 US Census]] for [[Queens, New York City]]</ref> Robert Ensko, Inc. silver was being advertised in The Antiquarian Magazine in March and April 1930.<ref>Antiquarian Magazine; March and April 1930</ref>-->

At the death of his father in 1934, Stephen took over Robert Ensko, Inc. which had its showroom at 682 [[Lexington Avenue]] in Manhattan. He continued to commission the creation of reproductions of antique silver, to be sold under the Ensko name. <!-- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) says: The records for incorporations in New York City are still extant-->

He reissued and updated his father's book ''Makers of Early American Silver'' and published it as ''American Silversmiths and their Marks'' in 1927. The first edition was limited to 310 copies, and as told in Robert Alan Green's book on American Silversmith's marks, many of the first edition copies were destroyed in an accident. The 1992 edition had the following introduction: 
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In the world of American silver, one book has remained the indispensable reference guide, the quintessential ''vade mecum'' for any serious collector. This is Ensko's American Silversmiths and Their Marks, first compiled in 1915 by Robert Ensko, revised and enlarged by his son Stephen in 1927, again reissued with corrections and additional names and marks as Ensko III in 1948, and now available in this elegantly printed and up-to-date fourth edition. ... Their New York firm, founded in 1878 and finally dissolved in 1970, was central to the study and appreciation of fine American silver, and, in the world of collectors, the Ensko name was synonymous with high quality and taste. ...<ref>{{cite book |last=Ensko |first=Stephen G.C. |title=American Silversmiths and Their Marks |year= 1989|isbn=0-87923-778-3 }}</ref> 
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Ensko published a second edition of the book in 1937 and a third in 1948. He also published ''English Silver 1675-1825'' in 8 volumes in 1937.