Ripley, George
clergyman, journalist, author, was born Oct. 3, 1802, in Greenfield, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman who was pastor in Boston in 1826-41, and then for several years the chief promoter of the famous Brook Farm experiment. In 1849 he became literary editor of The New York Tribune, and continued in that position until his death.
With C. A. Dana he edited the American Cyclopedia, 1857-63, and also the revised edition of the same, 1873-76. His literary criticisms exerted a wide and beneficial influence. He was the author of Discourses on the Philosophy of Religion; and Letters to Andrews Norton on the Latest Form of Infidelity. He died July 4, 1880, in New York city.