Ripley

Ripley, GEORGE, was born at Greenfield, Massachusetts, 3d October 1802, graduated at Harvard in 1823, afterwards studied theology there for three years, and was ordained to a pastorate in Boston. This he held till 1841. In the meantime he had joined actively in the Transcendental movement—the first meeting of the club was at his house in 1836; and on leaving the pulpit he at once started the Brook Farm (q.v.) experiment. This came to an end in 1847, and Ripley removed to New York, when he afterwards engaged in literary and journalistic work. He was joint-editor with Charles A. Dana of Appleton's New American Cyclopædia. He died 4th July 1880. See Life by O. B. Frothingham in the 'American Men of Letters' series (1882).