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Christopher G. Ripley, Chief Justice 1870-1874

Publications

Christopher Gore Ripley papers at Harvard University Library
Rev. Samuel Ripley
Biography of Christopher G. Ripley's father.
Sarah Bradford Ripley (mother of Christopher Ripley) - Wikipedia
History of the Minnesota Supreme Court - Green Bag
James Gilfillan vs. Christopher G. Ripley: The Contest for the Republican Nomination for Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, 1869 - MN Legal History Project
Samuel Ripley Papers at Harvard University Library
Several letters from Christopher Gore Ripley are included in this collection.
Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to Christopher Gore Ripley
Christopher Ripley was a relative of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

History of the bench and bar of Minnesota by prepared under the direction of Hiram F. Stevens
Publication Date: 1904
2 Volumes
This title is also available in the library's Special Collections Room.

University: Distinguished Visitors - What They Think of It, Minneapolis Daily Tribune, October 6, 1872, p.4, column 2
Judge Ripley visits the University of Minnesota
Illness of Chief Justice Ripley, Mantorville Express, October, 3, 1873, p.2, column 3
Serious Illness of Judge Ripley, October Term of Supreme Court Adjourned, Chatfield Democrat, Oct. 4, 1873, p.2, column 5
Judge Ripley seems to have had a stroke and Judge McMillian was also ill.
Judge Ripley..., Chatfield Democrat, Oct. 18, 1873, p.3, column 3
Report on the health of Judge Ripley.
Resignation of Chief Justice Ripley, Chatfield Democrat, March 21, 1874, p.3, column 2
Were the early settlers brighter? Minneapolis Journal, Feb. 27, 1904, p.2
Purchase of portrait...The Appeal, April 20, 1901, p.25, bottom of column 3
Purchase of portrait of Chief Justice Ripley......$200.00
Painted portrait of Christopher G. Ripley, 1880 - MNHS
Supplement, 17 MEDICO-LEGAL J. 1 (1899).

Portrait

Christopher G. Ripley

Christopher G. Ripley, 1880, courtesy Minnesota Historical Society, AV1988.45.90, https://www.mnhs.org/search/collections/record/505cc598-c86b-4403-b20a-892e8e610c0d