Born in Flehingen, Germany, at age 14 he moved to Rockport, Indiana. Within a couple of years he had enrolled at the Indiana University, where he studied under David Starr Jordan. Eigenmann received a bachelor's degree in 1886, and soon after went to California, where he met Rosa Smith, herself already becoming known for _her_ work on West Coast fisheries. <sep>, Pronoun: her <sep>, A: Eigenmann <sep>, B: Rosa Smith