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 RIPLEY

RIPLEY

coadjutor with the right of succession to Arch- bishop Joseph S. Alenianj' of San Francisco. He was consecrated bishop in St. James's church, Chi- cago, 111., Sept. 16, 1883, by Archbishop Feehan, assisted by Bishops McCloskey of Louisville, Ky., and Chatard of Vincennes, Ind. ; participated in the third plenary council of Baltimore ; succeeded to the archbishopric, Dec. 28, 1884, and to the Pallium, Sept. 20, 1885.

RIPLEY, Christopher Gore, jurist, was born in Waltham. Mass., Sept. 6, 1822 ; son of the Rev. Samuel (Harvard, 1804) and Sarah Alden (Brad- ford) Ripley ; grandson of the Rev. Dr. Ezra (Harvard, 1776) and Phebe (Emerson) Ripley; great-grandson of the Rev. William and Phebe Emerson, and a direct descendant of William Ripley, who came from England, 1638, and of Governor Bradford of Plymouth colony. He was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1841 ; studied law at Harvard Law school, and in the office of Franklin Dexter of Boston, and was admitted to the bar. In 1856 he settled at Chatfield, Minn., and engaged in tlie real estate business with Ed- ward Dexter, the firm being Dexter & Ripley, 1858-59. In 1859-62 he practised law in partner- ship with Henry R. Wells. He was elected chief justice of the supreme court of Minnesota in No- vember, 1869, serving from Jan. 7, 1870 to April 7, 1874, when he resigned by reason of a stroke of paralysis. Soon after this he returned to Massachusetts and made his home in Concord, Mass., until his deatli. which occurred at Con- cord, in Novemlier. 1881.

RIPLEY, Eleazar Wheeiock, soldier and rep- resentative, was born in Hanover, N.H., Apj-il 15, 1782 ; son of Sylvauus Ripley, and grand- nephew of John Wli'^elock (q.v.), founder of Dart- mouth college. His father (1750-1787) was graduated in the first class from Dartmouth, A.B., 1771, A.M., 1773 ; was tutor there, 1772-82 ; Phillips professor of theology, 1782-87, and a trustee, 1775-87. He was graduated from Dart- mouth, A.B., 1800 ; was admitted to the bar, and began practice in Waterville, Maine. He was a reiJreseutative in the Massachusetts legislature, 1807-11, serving as speaker in 1811 ; removed to Portland in 1812. and in the same j^ear was elected a senator in the Massachusetts legislature. In the war of 1812 he joined the army as lieu- tenant of the 21st infantry ; was promoted col- onel, March 12, 1813, taking part in the attack on York (Toronto), Canada, April 27, 1813, where he was three times wounded ; was on frontier duty until April 14, 1814, when he was promoted brig- adier-general, and in command of the 2d brigade, Gen. Jacob Brown's army, fought at the battle of Chippewa, July 5, 1814, and at Niagara, July 25, where lie was again wounded. For his dis- tinguished services in these engagements he was

brevetted major-general. He was prominent in the defence and sortie of Fort Erie, Aug. 15 and Sept. 17, 1814, being shot through the neck in the latter attack, and for his gallantry was pre- sented by congress with a gold medal, inscribed " Niagara, Chippewa, Erie." After the war he was retained in the service, and superintended the erection of fortifications in the south-west until 1820, when he resigned, and took up the practice of law at Jackson, La. He was subse- quently a member of the Louisiana senate ; a Jackson Democratic representative from Louis- iana in the 24th and 25th congresses, serving from 1835 until his death, which occurred the day before his term expired. His son, who served in the Texan army under Capt. James W. Fannin (q.v.), was captured and put to death at Goliad, Tex., March 27, 1836. General Ripley published an oration, delivered, July 4. 1805. He died in West Feliciana. La.. March 2, 1839.

RIPLEY, George, literary critic, was born in Greenfield, Mass., Oct. 3, 1802; son of Jerome Ripley, a prominent merchant, a representative in the state legislature and a justice of the court of sessions. He was graduated from Harvard col- lege, A.B., 1823, A.M., 1826, and from the Harvard Divinity

school in 1826 ; was a tutor at Harvard, 1825-26, and was or- dained pastor of a new religious society in Boston, Mass., No- vember 8, 1826. He was married in 1826 to Sophia Willard, daughter of Francis Dana of Cambridge, and in 1828 was ap- pointed pastor of the Unitarian church in Purchase street, Boston, Mass. In 1831 he went to Europe to study philosophy, returning to Boston in 1835, and in 1841 he resigned his charge and abandoned the ministry, devoting himself to the study of philosophy, and becoming deeply versed in the literature, theology and philosophy of German literature. Immediate!}' on leaving the ministry, he began the Brook Farm experi- ment. The site chosen was a farm of 200 acres near Roxbury, Mass., and the society was known first as the " Brook Farm Institute of Education and Agriculture," but was later incorporated as the "Brook Farm Phalanx." The aim of the society was to establish an agricultural, literary and scientific school or college, where a true religious and moral life could be lived. Some of the members of the Phalanx were Eli.'ia

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