. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . n town (Concord, 1827). He alsopublished several sermons and addresses, and a Half-Century Discourse (1828). RIPLEY, George, scholar, b. in Greenfield,Mass., 3 Oct., 1802; d. in New York city, 4 *sn. He was the youngest but one of ten chil-dren, four boys and six girls, all of whom he sur-vived. His father, Jerome Ripley, was a justice of the peace for nearly half a century, arepresentative in the legislature, and one of thejustices of the court of sessions. His mother was aformal, precise, stately, but kind-hearted woman, aconn
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . n town (Concord, 1827). He alsopublished several sermons and addresses, and a Half-Century Discourse (1828). RIPLEY, George, scholar, b. in Greenfield,Mass., 3 Oct., 1802; d. in New York city, 4 *sn. He was the youngest but one of ten chil-dren, four boys and six girls, all of whom he sur-vived. His father, Jerome Ripley, was a justice of the peace for nearly half a century, arepresentative in the legislature, and one of thejustices of the court of sessions. His mother was aformal, precise, stately, but kind-hearted woman, aconnection of Benjamin Franklin. She was ortho-dox in religion, and her husband was a Unitarian,which accounts for the singular mingling of con-servative feeling with radical tendencies in theirchild. George loved to hear the old tunes at BrookFarm, and always had on his table a copy of I> hymns, even when he was writing philo-sophical articles for the Tribune. and worship-ping in New York with an independent society of RIPLEY RIPLEY 259. the most liberal type. He was graduated at Har-vard in 1823, the first scholar in a class that in-cluded men of some intellectual distinction. Hisonlv rival was John P. Robinson, who might haveoutstripped him, but was suspended for the parthe took in a rebellion, and so lost his Cambridge young Ripley was known as an ex-cellent scholar, espe-cially in language-and literature. Hewas also proficientin mathematics,which he taught forsome time at the col-lege while he wassi inlying years werespent at the divin-ity-school, and on 8Nov., 1826, he wasordained pastor of anew religious socie-ty in Boston, Presi-dent Kirkland, ofHarvard, preach-ing the sermon, Lowell of-fering the prayer of ordination, and Dr. HenryWare, Jr., giving the charge. The corner-stone ofthe new meeting-house, at the junction of Pur-chase and Pearl streets, was laid on 7 Sept., 1825,and the dedication took place on 24 Aug., the
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