| Born in Rutland, VT on Sept. 19, 1865, the son of a Civil War general. Ripley was a graduate of Yale University. He was in the logging business in Tacoma, WA for many years. Upon retirement from the Wheeler-Osgood Company there in 1927, he moved to Santa Barbara. After losing everything in the stockmarket crash of 1929, he began a career as a painter and writer. He then studied painting with Belmore Browne at the Santa Barbara School of Arts and wrote a book, A Vermont Boyhood, in 1937 whic (showing 500 of 898 characters). |
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