Charles Ripley

Birth Date

c1815

Death Date

1866

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Greenfield, Massachusetts, native. Married to Margaret Breckenridge Ripley in Washington, D. C., in 1859. Attorney at Ripley & Thompson in partnership with William K. Thompson in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1861. Elected to the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from the 15th Senatorial District in 1856.

Joseph Gardner Bartlett, Gregory Stone Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Dea. Gregory Stone of Cambridge, Mass., 1320-1917 (Boston: Stone Family Association, 1918), 256.
Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 206.
Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Frankfort: A. G. Hodges, 1856), 3.
"Charles Ripley Photograph Collection, ca. 1850 - ca. 1929," Finding aid at the Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky, https://nyx.uky.edu/fa/findingaid/?id=xt79cn6xwq6x#fa-heading-descriptive-summary (accessed July 25, 2016).

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