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Ripley (GEORGE an American author born)

GEORGE, an American author; born in Greenfield, Mass., Oct. 3, 1802; educated at Harvard University and Cambridge Divinity School; became a Unitarian minister in Boston; lived some years in Europe; was one of the founders of the Transcendental magazine, the "Dial" (on which he had Emerson and Margaret Fuller as coadjutors); and the originator and conductor of the communistic experiment at Brook Farm. He became literary editor of the New York "Tribune" in 1849, and was joint-editor with Charles A. Dana of the "American Cyclopædia" (1858-1863, 16 vols., also of the second edition). He died in New York City, July 4, 1880.