Editor; born in
Greenfield, Mass., Oct. 3, 1802; was an able writer and a most industrious man of letters, having edited, translated, and written numerous works on a great variety of subjects, and gained a wide reputation as a scholar, editor, and journalist.
He graduated at Harvard University in 1823, and Cambridge Divinity School in 1826; became pastor of the Thirteenth Congregational (Unitarian) Church in
Boston;
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George Ripley. |
and was prominent in the
Brook farm Association (q. v.) In 1840-41 he was associate editor with
Ralph Waldo Emerson and
Margaret Fuller of the
Dial, the organ of the
New England Transcendentalists; and with
Charles A. Dana,
Parke Godwin, and
J. S. Dwight, of the
Harbinger, an advocate of socialism as propounded by
Fourier.
From 1849 until his death
Mr. Ripley was the literary editor of the New York
Tribune.
In conjunction with
Charles A. Dana,
Dr. Ripley edited
Appleton's
New American Cyclopaedia (16 volumes, 1857-63), and a new edition (1873-76). He died in New York City, July 4, 1880.
