Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Ripley, John E 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

John E. Ripley, farmer, section 30, Montmorency Township, is a son of Pomeroy 
and Sarah (Merricks) Ripley, natives respectively of New York State and 
Virginia, who settled in Ohio, afterward removed to the Empire State, and in 
1852 located in Jordan Township, this county, where Mr. R. died, Jan. 1, 1864, 
and Mrs. R. still survives. During his life, Mr. R. served in many places of 
trust in local affairs, being Supervisor, Justice of the Peace, Tax Collector, 
etc., a number of years. They had seven children,— Eliza A., Frances C., John 
E., Ezra P., Henry C., Sarah D. and Charles P. Four of this number are now 
living: Eliza A. Christie, of Hume Township, this County; Henry E., who now 
resides at Owego, N. Y., is the proprietor of a large boot and shoe store and 
is a graduate of the Sterling Business College; and Charles P., who is yet 
living at his mother's home in Hume Township; and John E. Mr. Ripley, of this 
sketch, was born in Jordan Township, this county, July 31, 1855, and has all 
his life been a farmer. He received a common-school education, and at the age 
of 22 left his paternal home, bought 82 acres of land in Montmorency Township, 
on section 30, where he settled and has since resided. He now owns 122 acres, 
nearly all of which is in cultivation. He was married in Nelson, Lee Co., 
Ill., Feb. 28, 1878, to Flora E., daughter of Lewis F. and Sevilla (Hasse) 
Long, natives of Pennsylvania, who came to Lee County in 1876, where they 
still reside; they had seven children, viz.: Sophia A., Flora E., Norman H., 
Ida C., Nettie A., Samuel T. and Grace. Mrs. Ripley was born in Somerset Co., 
Pa., March 12, 1856. She and her husband have two children,—Bessie G. and 
Blanch E. Mr. Ripley's politics are Republican, his religion that of the 
Baptist Church. Mrs. R. is a member of the English Lutheran Church.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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