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Edward Hastings Ripley was born on November 11, 1839 at Center Rutland, Vermont, the son of William Young and Zulma DeLacy (Thomas) Ripley. His father, a descendant of William Ripley who came to Hingham, Massachussets, from England in 1638, was a banker and pioneer in the development of marble quarries in Vermont. Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr was his sister.
In 1861 Edward was a junior in Union College, Schenectady, New York. He remained in college until May 1862 when he enlisted in the army, afterwards receiving the A. B. degree.
He was immediately engaged in recruiting a company for the 9th Vermont Volunteers. The regiment was sent to Winchester, Virginia, and was a part of the force which surrendered to "Stonewall" Jackson at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, in September 1862, being interned in parole camp at Chicago until an exchange was effected in January 1863.
Ripley's conduct had marked him for promotion, and in March, although he was the youngest captain, he was appointed major. The regiment was now sent to join the troops defending Suffolk, Virginia. In May Ripley was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and in the following month, colonel. During this period of irksome service, marked by minor operations and much sickness and hardship, his energy and attention to the details of training were unflagging, and his regiment acquired distinction for superior discipline and efficiency.
In recognition of these services he was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers on August 1, 1864. In September he joined the XVIII Corps in front of Richmond, Vermont, and, in command of a brigade of Heckman's division, participated in the attack on Chaffin's Farm on September 29-30. His brigade shared in the capture of Fort Harrison, but was repulsed in front of Fort Gilmer, Virginia, an action in which Ripley was wounded. In Butler's demonstration north of the James River on Octember 26-27, Ripley led his brigade in an unsuccessful attack on Longstreet's position near Fair Oaks.
In March 1865, the command of the 16t Brigade, 3rd Division, XXIV Corps, devolved upon him, and when Lee's army evacuated Richmond, Ripley's brigade was the first Federal infantry to enter the city. He found it in flames, the people in terror, the pillaging mob in control, but acted with such energy that before the next sunrise the fire was extinguished and order restored. He remained on this duty until the restoration of civil authority, securing the safety of the city and winning the approbation of the citizens.
After the war Ripley became prominent as a financier and business executive in Rutland, Vermont.
He also served as a representative from Rutland County in the state legislature.
He died at Rutland after an illnes.
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On May 23, 1878, he married Amelia Dyckman Van Doren and they had two daughters.
