Ripley, Ezra, a Unitarian minister, was born at Woodstock, Conn., May 1, 1751. He followed farming until he was sixteen, when he began to study, and was admitted into Harvard College, July, 1772. After his graduation he taught in Plymouth, and studied theolo- gy under Rev. Jason Haven, of Dedham. He was or- dained pastor of the Church in Concord, IMass., Nov. 7, 1778. He was honored with the degree of D.D. in 1816. Dr. Eipley was an ardent advocate of the temperance cause, and was a member of the old Massachusetts So- ciety for the Suppression of Intemperance. His death took place Sept. 18, 1841. His publications are Ser- vians and Chdrrjes (1791-1829) -.^iristory of the Con- cord Fiijht (1827). See Sprague, Annuls of the Avier. Piiljiit, \in, 112.
Ripley, Henry Jones, D.D., a distinguished Baptist divine and Biblical scholar, was born in Boston, Jan. 28, 1798. He entered Harvard University, a med- al scholar from the Boston Latin School, at the early age of fourteen, and graduated with the class of 1816. He took the full course of theological study at Andover, ■where he graduated in 1819. He was ordained as an evangelist Nov. 7, 1819, and spent some time in Georgia, devoting himself especially to the religious welfare of the colored people in the section of the state where he labored. The length of his ministerial service at the South was not far from seven years, 1819-1826. One year during this period he spent in Eastport, Me. Soon after the founding of the Newton Theological Institu- tion, Dr. IJipley was elected, in 1826, professor of Bib- lical literature and pastoral duties, which office he held until 1832, when the election of anotlicr officer allowed him to direct his whole attention to Biblical interpre- tation. In 1839 he was transferred to the chair of sacred rhetoric and pastoral duties, which position he occupied with ability for seventeen years. The last three years of bis connecti(pn witli the institution he was associate professor of Biblical literature. After a service of thirty-four years, he resigned his professor- ship. After his resignation he was occupied some five years in literary work, and for a time was engaged in evangelical laljors among the freedmen of (ieorgia. Kcturiiing to the institution at Newton, he accepted an ai)pointinent as librarian, which position he held during the remainder of bis life. He died at Newton Centre, Mass.. May 21, 187.5. I'rof. Hi|)ley made diligent use of his pen during his life. He publisheil quite a number of carefully prepared articles in the Amcriain Baptist Magaziiii-, the Christian Jh-rinr, and the Bihlinilieca /Sa- cra. He was also the author of the following works: Memoir if Rvr. Thomas ,S. Winn: — Christian Baptism, an examination of Prof. Stuart's essay on the mode of baptism: — Notes on the F<iur Cnspels: — N^otes on the Acts of the Apostles: — Notes on the Epistle to the Ro- mans:— Notes on the Epistle to the Hebrews, with new
translation : — Sacred Rhetoric, composition and delivety of sermons : — Erclusiveness of the Baptists, a review of Rev. A Barnes's pamphlet on exclusivism : — Church Polity, a treatise on Christian churches and the Chris- tian ministry. He prepared also an edition of Camp- bell's Lectures on Si/stematic Theology, and edited the Karen Apostle by Rev. Francis Mason. See Stearns, Hovey, and Clarke, Funeral A ddresses. (J. C. S.)
Ripley, Hezekiah, D.D., a Congregational min- ister, was born at Windham, Conn., Feb. 3 (O. S.), 1743. He graduated at Yale College in 1763, and was ordained, Feb. 1 1, 1767, pastor at Green's Farms, where he labored until his death, December, 1831. He was made a mem- ber of Yale College Corporation in 1790, and remained such for twenty-seven years. See Sprague, Annuls of the A mer. Pulpit, i, 647.
Ripley, John Bingham, a Presbyterian minis- ter, was born in Ellsworth township, Mahoning Co., C)., April 18, 1824. He was converted when eighteen years of age ; graduated at Jefferson College, Pa., in 1846, and at the Theological Seminary at Princeton, N. J., in 1850. His labors in the ministry began in Burlington, N. J., where he was invited to settle, but did not do so. He subsequently accepted an agency from the American and F'oreign Christian Union, and labored in Ohio and Michigan. He was ordained and installed bj' the Phil- adelphia Presbytery as pastor of the Mariners' Church, Philadelphia, in 1854, and here he continued to labor until his death, iVIarch, 1862. This was a very inter- esting charge. The sailors were his friends, and noth- ing that he could do for them by the instrumentality of books, visits, letters of entreaty, and prayer was ever omitted. He sought the mariner at the tavern, the cellar, the refectory, the boarding - house, the sailors' home, and on board of ship. Besides many articles in the religious press, he was the author of several works, viz.: Thoughts for the Forecastle: — Seven Dia- monds:— Plain Words for Young Men, he&ides several Tracts. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. A Imanac, 1863, p. 200. (J.L.S.)
Ripley, Lincoln, a Congregational minister, was born at Woodstock, Conn., in 1761. Late in life he en- tered Dartmouth College, where he gradiiated in 1796. He soon after entered the ministry and settled at Wa- terford. Me., then a wilderness. His life was identified with the early history of the Church and town of Wa- terford. He severed his connection with that Church in 1821, and died July 14, 1858, See Amer.Cong. Yeia-- 6ooA-, 1859, p. 128.