Solomon RIPLEY

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He and Aurelia lived in New Vineyard, Maine.

Solomon’s ancestors from Sue H B’s research.

Irene says that Solomon was born 24 Oct 1789 in Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. He died in Farmington, Maine, on 5 Feb 1854.

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Solomon married Aurelia PRATT on 14 Dec 1812 in Farmington, Franklin County, Maine. Aurelia was born on 17 Sep 1793 in New Vineyard, Franklin County, Maine; died on 18 Apr 1858 in Chesterville, Franklin County, Maine; was buried in Webster Cemetery, Franklin County, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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dveber1 believes that Abigail married Daniel Smith and is the wife listed with him in the 1850 census.

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According to OneWorld, his father was Solomon Ripley and his mother was Aurelia Pratt. In the 1820 census, there was a Solomon Ripley living in Farmington, Kennebec County, Maine.

In the 1850 census, he was a farmer in the Town of Chesterville in Franklin County, Maine.

In the 1860 census, he was a farmer in Minneapolis.

In the 1875 state census, he and “Marthy” were living in Minneapolis.

According to an article in the Minneapolis Tribune’s October 10, 1890, edition, Moses Ripley, Charles’s son, had questioned the older man’s sanity. “Charles Ripley has been pronounced sane by Judge Bailey, after a few hours’ visit. Moses Ripley, the son, claimed that the old man was incapable of manging his own business but the judge thought differently.”

Charles died in 1891 leaving an estate of $75,000. He had real property that was considered quite profitable. This was mostly temement blocks on Washington Avenue south, near 12th and 13th Avenues, which yielded a monthly rental income of $400 to $600.

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Kerrs and dveber1

Charles married Martha DUNSMOOR in 1837. Martha (daughter of Phineas DUNSMOOR and Elizabeth ADAMS) was born about 1817 in Temple, Franklin County, Maine; died on 25 Feb 1891 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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dveber1 believes that Aurelia married James Dunsmoor, who was a brother of Charles John Ripley’s wife (and Moses Ripley’s mother) Martha.

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In the 1870 census, he and his wife and two sons lived in Richland County, Wisconsin.

In the 1900 and 1910 censuses, he was a widower living at the old soldiers’ home in Minneapolis.

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He was an officer in the Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment in the Civil War.

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She and George VandeVere divorced and George had remarried by 1866. The Herrs say that Lovina had two husbands after George. The last one was William McCabe.

Buried:
as Lovina VandeVere

Lovina married George Hamlin VANDEVERE on 16 Sep 1854 in Ramsey County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was his parents’ second child.

One Ancestry source has him as Moses Harrison Ripley, born 29 Aug 1840 in Civil, Chesterville, Maine.

In the 1860 census, he is Moses H Ripley, a farmer in Maple Grove Twp in Hennepin County.

In the 1865 state census, he is listed in Minneapolis, Hennepin County. As Bonnie points out, Moses would have been still serving with Hatch’s battalion at the time the census was taken if, indeed, Moses was mustered out of service in January of 1866. Moses and Ophelia’s son Charles was born in 1865 or 1866 so Charles must not have been away from home for the whole two-and-a-half years. There is no indication in the 1865 census that Moses is absent. Bonnie notes that Moses may have been injured during his military service because an 1883 list of pensioners in Anoka County includes Moses who is receiving $4 per month pension for a spine injury.

In the 1870 census, he and his family live in West St. Paul, Dakota County. His occupation is carpenter.

In the 1873 Minneapolis city directory, he is a carpenter residing at “19th Av S betw 2½ and 3d.”

In the 1875 state census, he and his family are listed in Minneapolis, Hennepin County.

In the 1880 census, he and his family lived in Blaine Twp, Anoka County, Minnesota. Moses was a farmer.

According to Bonnie, Moses was elected the first chairman of the Blaine Township Board of Supervisors at that body’s first election in the summer of 1877 when Blaine Township was organized. Moses is credited with giving Blaine its name when he persuaded fellow board members to name the new township in honor of James G. Blaine, a popular senator from Maine.

In the 1885 state census, they were farmers in Fridley.

On 21 April 1887, the Taylors Falls Land Office granted Moses H Ripley a 160 acre homestead at 1 NE 4th PM No Township 31 N, Range 23 W, Section 22, in Anoka County. Its official description on the record over Grover Cleveland’s “signature,” was “northeast quarter of section twenty-two in township thirty-one north of range twenty-three west of the Fourth Principal Meridian in Minnesota, containing 160 acres.”

In the 1890 veterans schedule, Moses H Ripley is listed as living in Blaine and Fridley in Anoka County. He was a Private in the “Hatches Ind Battery” from August 4, 1863, to January 27, 1866, a period of service of 2 years, 5 months, and 28 days.

In the Civil War Soldiers Records and Profiles, Moses H Ripley is shown as having enlisted, as a blacksmith, in Company B, Minnesota Hatch’s Cavalry Battalion. (It was also called Hatch’s Independent Battalion, Minnesota Cavalry.) Here is the description of that battalion:

Regimental History
MINNESOTA
HATCH'S CAVALRY BATTALION
(Three Years)

Hatch's Cavalry Battalion.--Maj., E. A. C. Hatch. This battalion was organized during Aug. and Sept., 1863, and left for Pembina Oct. 5, for Indian duty, accompanied by one section of the 3d Minn. light battery. It acted as escort for a transportation train from St. Cloud, and from Pomme de Terre Oct. 24 the major portion of the troops were sent to Fort Abercrombie to obtain additional ordnance, the rest of the command under Lieut. Charles Mix, continuing with the train, a junction to be effected at Georgetown.

A sudden thaw compelled the train to rest days and travel nights and the road was lost, the command being thus several days late in reaching Georgetown. Animals and men suffered greatly, owing to the failure of contractors to deliver hay and grain as agreed, and only by most determined work did the expedition continue. Two hundred and fifty horses, mules and oxen died between Georgetown and Pembina, and as much of the stores as could be spared were left at Georgetown.

In December a small detachment surprised and captured a party of Indians and soon afterward some 200 of Little Crow's band surrendered. Others came in until Maj. Hatch had nearly 400, and early in Jan., 1864, the Sioux chiefs, Little Six and Medicine Bottle, were captured, sent to Fort Snelling and after trial were hung for their crimes in the massacre of 1862, Little Six confessing to having personally killed 50 people. In February the battalion was joined by Maj. Joseph R. Brown, with over 40 friendly Indians. Maj. Brown left for Fort Snelling with the prisoners and on April 10, Lieut. Mix and party left for Fort Abercrombie. On May 5, the entire command moved for Fort Abercrombie. Co. C was detailed to Alexandria and Pomme de Terre and Co. D to patrol duty from Fort Abercrombie to Pembina. Maj. Hatch resigned in June because of ill health, being succeeded by Lieut.-Col. C. Powell Adams, and Cos. E and F were mustered in during Aug. and Sept., 1864. Post and patrol duty was the order until 1866, when the regiment was mustered out by companies during April, May and June.

Battles Fought
Fought on 28 Sep 1864.

From an article called The Man Who Named the City by Karen Klinkenberg.

Moses Harrison Ripley was born on August 24, 1840 in Franklin County Maine, to Charles Ripley and Martha Dunsmoor Ripley. They had 6 children, born between 1838 and 1859—Moses was second-born. At age 15, his family moved to Dakota County, Minnesota and a few months later to Minneapolis. He married Ophelia M. Lightbourn, of the West Indies, on June 2, 1859. They had ten children between about 1861 and 1883, seven of whom survived them.

On August 4, 1863 Moses Ripley enlisted in Hatch’s Independent Battalion, formed in response to the 1862 Sioux Uprising. The battalion was dispatched to Pembina near the Red River on the Canadian border on October 5, 1863 and arrived on November 13, 1863, the men having marched the entire distance. After enduring a harsh Dakota winter, food shortage and the loss of most of their horses, the battalion received orders to dispatch to Fort Abercrombie in Dakota Territory. Ripley was discharged on January 27, 1866 and returned to Minneapolis.

Census records for the years 1860 and 1870 list Moses Ripley as residing in various towns around the St. Paul and Minneapolis area. His occupations included carpentry and farming.

In November, 1875 he settled on a farm in Anoka County. In 1877, Blaine Township was established and, at the suggestion of Moses Ripley, was named in honor of James Gillespie Blaine, a politician from Ripley’s home state of Maine. At the first township election Ripley was named chairman of the Board of Supervisors. He served in subsequent township offices before moving to Fridley sometime later.

In the summer of 1891, Moses contested his father’s will which left his portion of his father’s estate to Moses’s wife for the protection of Moses as well as Moses’s family. The father had concluded that “since the war [Moses] had developed intemperate habits.”

A brief article in the 24 October 1891 edition of the Tribune, p. 8, titled “A Mad Pater Familias”: Moses H. Ripley, a son of the late Charles Ripley, who died some time ago leaving property worth many thousands of dollars, was up for examination before Judge Corrigan yesterday. Some four weeks ago he developed acute symptoms of insanity and threatened to kill his family. The judge ordered Moses to be sent to Rochester. He is a married man with seven children and is 51 years of age.

Moses Ripley died in Rochester, Minnesota of influenza and pneumonia at the age of 51 on January 19, 1892 and was buried at Layman’s Cemetery in Minneapolis. In 1896, his grave was relocated to Hillside Cemetery. Ophelia died on December 12, 1893, also from pneumonia, in Minneapolis. She was buried at Hillside Cemetery along with Moses and his parents.

Birth:
OneWorld Tree. Other sources say 24 August.

Died:
“died at the Rochester asylum”

Buried:
C 102 2, “Vet. GAR” (Grand Army of the Republic). Initially buried at Layman’s Cemetery.

Moses married Ophelia LIGHTBOURN on 2 Jun 1859 in Ramsey County, Minnesota. Ophelia (daughter of Nathaniel LIGHTBOURN and Louisa DEANE) was born on 27 May 1840 in Turks and Caicos Islands; died on 12 Dec 1893 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William A PETERSON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Listed in the 1860 census and the 1865 and 1875 state censuses.

In the 1880 census, she lived with her husband, daughter, and mother-in-law in Minneapolis.

In the 1895 state census, she lived with her husband and daughter in northeast Minneapolis.

Martha married Alonzo P LILLIE on 24 Dec 1878 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Alonzo was born about 1851 in Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She was listed in the 1865 state census and, as Elmira, in the 1875 state census and the 1880 federal census.

In the 1870 census, she seems to have been called Edwin, an 8 year-old male.

She is probably the Elmira L Ripley who married Robert A Gray in Hennepin County on 6 August 1880.

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Listed in the 1875 Minnesota state census and the 1880 federal census. In the latter census, he is living at home with his parents and siblings in Anoka County.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1928-MN-017961
• Occupation: Dressmaker

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“Lily” in the 1875 state census.

Indexed as Lita or Lela Fortier in the 1920 census index. She is a widow. She and Howard lived in a rented apartment at 338 East 17th Street. She works as a seamstress doing day work.

Her father was born in Maine, her mother in West something. Census illegible. In the 1910 censuses, it seems to be “West Indies” as it does for her brothers in the 1900 census. But for Lila in the 1900 census, the indication for her mother is “India.”

Reported in the 1900 census has having had 2 children, zero still living. Reported in the 1910 census that she had had 3 children, only one still living.

She was a member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union.

Birth:
Minnesota Deaths and Burials says her birth date was 1 November

Lila married Henry Alfred FORTIER on 25 Dec 1889 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. Henry (son of John FORTIER and Ann SHERWOOD) was born on 25 Sep 1853 in Canada; died on 3 Apr 1921 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried on 5 Apr 1921 in Hillside Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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In the 1895 state census, William and Carrie, with his brother Ed, were living at 1907 Central Avenue (2nd floor) in Minneapolis. Both men were machinists. Both men had been in the current enumeration district for 4 years and 2 months.

In the 1900 census, William and his family were living in northeast Minneapolis. He was a machinist.

In the 1909 Minneapolis city directory, he is William A Ripley, a machinist for Heywood Manufacturing Co. He lives at 2506 Filmore.

In the 1910 census, William is a machinist for a railroad.

In the 1920 census, William, Carrie, and their two sons still live in northeast Minneapolis. William is a machinist for the railroad, Willard is a clerk for an automobile works, and Harald is a clerk for the railroad.

In the 1930 census, William and Carrie live at 2506 Taylor Street in Minneapolis. Their son Harold and his family live at 2510 Taylor Street, which may be the same building. William is a machinist in a railroad shop. He was not a veteran.

William married Carrie A HENDRICKSON on 25 Dec 1894 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Carrie was born on 22 Jun 1873 in Norway; died on 21 Oct 1966 in Ramsey County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1972-MN-028107
• Occupation: machinist

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In the 1895 state census, he is living with his brother William and William’s wife in Minneapolis.

In the 1900 census, Edward and his wife were living in northeast Minneapolis, near his brothers and his sister and her husband. Edward was a machinist.

In the 1905 Minnesota census, he and his wife Alice, 27, and their son Donald, age 3, live in Minneapolis. He’s a machinist.

In the 1909 Minneapolis city directory, he was a foreman living at 1100 24th Avenue N.E.

He registered for the draft on September 12, 1918, in Minneapolis. He was a machinist foreman and lived at 338 East 17th Street in Minneapolis. He gave his nearest relative as Mrs. Alice Marie Ripley (presumably his wife) of that same address. He was described as of medium height and build with brown eyes and brown hair.

In the 1930 census, he was a foreman for the steam railroad. He and his wife Genevieve, and her son Lester Ordway, lived in Minneapolis.

According to his death certificate, he was the widower of Genevieve M. He worked for the Soo Railroad. He died from cardiac arrest. The informant for his death certificate was Richard Heiber, 4817 Drew Avenue S. (That Richard C Heiber was born 15 Nov 1921 and died 18 Sep 2011.)

Heiber, Richard C. Age 89 of Mpls. Preceded by daughter, Susan Swanson. Survived by wife of 65 years, Eileen Myrta (nee Belland); daughters, Cheryl Glowdowski, Linda Olson; grandchildren, Michael, Jennifer, Vanessa, Christopher, Andrew, Evie, Linnea; 2 great- grandchildren. Private interment Lakewood Cemetery. Memorial service 2 PM Friday, September 23, with gathering 1 hour prior at Lake Harriet United Methodist Church, 4901 Chowen Ave S., Mpls. Washburn-McReavy Edina Chapel 952-920-

Died:
Walker Methodist Home

Buried:
Sec 36, Lot 317, Grave 1

Edward married May MARTINSON on 11 Mar 1897 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. May was born in Oct 1877 in Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Genevieve May on 16 May 1925 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Genevieve was born on 5 Sep 1878 in Minnesota; died on 14 Feb 1956 in Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried on 16 Feb 1956 in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Machinist

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In the 1895 state census, he and his brother George were living with the Fortiers in Minneapolis.

In the 1900 census he and his brother George were living with Lila and Howard Fortier in northeast Minneapolis. Walter was a machinist.

In the 1909 Minneapolis city directory, he was a machinist for the Heywood Manufacturing Company. He lived at 1927 Crystal Lake Ave.

In the 1910 census, he and his family lived in Minneapolis. He was a machinist at a paper box factory.

Walter married Alice Maud BARBER on 24 Dec 1900 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Alice was born on 8 Jun 1883 in Canada; died on 9 Apr 1956 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1959-MN-026371

Notes:

In the 1895 state census, he (as Henry Ripley) and his brother Walter were living with the Fortiers in Minneapolis.

In the 1900 census he and his brother Walter were living with Lila and Howard Fortier in northeast Minneapolis. George was a day laborer. His birth date was shown as February of 1882.

In the 1909 Minneapolis city directory, he was a tailor rooming at 903 3rd Avenue S.

George was a tailor in the 1910 census.

In the 1920 census, he and his family lived in Minneapolis. George was a steam fitter for the railroad.

In the 1930 census, he and his family lived in Minneapolis. George was a pipe fitter for the railroad. He was not a veteran.

Buried:
Dalby Database has 1959. George was initially buried at Hillside Cemetery with his parents.

George married Gertrude A BYRNE about 1908. Gertrude was born about 1884 in Illinois; died on 11 Jun 1962 in Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried on 14 Jun 1962 in St. Anthony of Padua Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]