History of the class of '70, Department of literature, science and the arts . ive practice. He was married bebruary 9th, 8t, to Julia Hosie, of Scran-ton, who died December 14th, 1898. ( )ne child, Harold A., diedjulv 16th, 1896, aged six years. He has two Ixiys now living—Cole B., aged 19 years, a freshman at Princet(jn University ; andJohn H., aged 17 years, preparing for college at Plair l^-esl;)yterialAcademv, Plairstown, X. ]. Henry Clay Ripley, Ann Arbor, Mich. He was Ijorn on a farm in thetown of Broadalban, MontgomeryCounty, New York, July 15th,1845. His father, Eliakim CornellRip
History of the class of '70, Department of literature, science and the arts . ive practice. He was married bebruary 9th, 8t, to Julia Hosie, of Scran-ton, who died December 14th, 1898. ( )ne child, Harold A., diedjulv 16th, 1896, aged six years. He has two Ixiys now living—Cole B., aged 19 years, a freshman at Princet(jn University ; andJohn H., aged 17 years, preparing for college at Plair l^-esl;)yterialAcademv, Plairstown, X. ]. Henry Clay Ripley, Ann Arbor, Mich. He was Ijorn on a farm in thetown of Broadalban, MontgomeryCounty, New York, July 15th,1845. His father, Eliakim CornellRipley, was born in tlie samehouse thirty years earlier. Hisoccupation was that of farmer andschool teacher until 1853, when hemoved to IMichigan and went intothe luml)er business at Saginaw,where he died in 1892, at the ageof // vears. His ancestors wereEnglish. Phebe Fairly IVnch. thematernal ancesttjr, was Ijorn at(ireenbush, Rensselaer County,New York, of l-Lnglish ancestry, 1)Ut with a trace of Dutch stock,and died at Saginaw, Michigan, in 1888, at the age of 69 172 Class of 70. Uxivi:rsitv of Michigan. Having moved with liis parents to Michigan in 1853. 14enrvC. Ripley found himself at Sai^inaw in 1856 in what was then anew countrw and there his earl}- education was pursued amid thedifificulties of meatier school facilities and with manv interruptitins-Ijy occupation in the lumlier woods and other loi^-ointi- some final preparation in the high school at Sat^inaw, he was-ahle to enter the Freshman class in 1866 at the Lniversit\- ofMichio-an. In the latter part of his colle_^e course, a circumstanceocciured which probahl}- determined in a lar^e measure his futurecareer. Alfred Xoble had an enoagement with Col. hanjuhar tomake surveys of a numl)er of harbors on the eastern shore of LakeMichigan, and he wanted an assistant on that work. lie hatispoken to both Ripley and Mickle about it and each had expresseda desire to go. luit he had need for but on
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