Sidney Dillon Ripley I Explained

Sidney Dillon Ripley
Birth Date:11 January 1863
Children:4
Occupation:Insurance executive
Parents:Josiah Dwight Ripley
Julia Elizabeth Dillon Ripley
Relations:Sidney Dillon (grandfather)
Sidney Dillon Ripley (nephew)

Sidney Dillon Ripley (January 11, 1863 – February 24, 1905) was an American insurance executive and prominent member of New York society during the Gilded Age.

Early life

He was the son of Josiah Dwight Ripley and Julia Elizabeth (née Dillon) Ripley. After his father's death, his mother remarried to Gilman Smith Moulton on March 1, 1894. His younger brothers were Harry Dillon Ripley and Louis Arthur Dillon Ripley, the father of Julie Ripley Forman (founder of the Forman School),[1] and Sidney Dillon Ripley II, an ornithologist who served as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and married Mary Livingston of the prominent Livingston family.[2]

His paternal grandfather was Sidney Dillon, the financier and builder of the Union Pacific Railroad who served as its first president. Following his grandfather's death, who left an estate valued at $6,000,000, he received bequests giving him an annual income of $60,000. Dillon came "from several Colonial families of Massachusetts and Connecticut. His American ancestor was William Ripley, who, with his wife, two sons and two daughters, came in one of the earliest companies of Colonists from Hingham, Norfolk County, England, and settled in Hingham, Massachusetts in 1638."[3]

Career

Beginning in 1885, Ripley worked for The Equitable Life Assurance Society,[4] eventually serving as the corporate treasurer and a director for 13 years.[5] He also served as a director of the First National Bank of Hemstead, L.I., the Manganese Steele Safe Company, the Mercantile Trust Company, the Mount Morris Bank, and the Taylor Iron and Steel Company.

Society life

In 1892, Ripley and his wife were both included in Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred", purported to be an index of New York's best families, published in The New York Times.[6] [7] Conveniently, 400 was the number of people that could fit into Mrs. Astor's ballroom.[8] He was a member of the Meadow Brook Hunt Club, the Metropolitan Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the New York Zoological Society, the New York Mycological Society, the Coney Island Jockey Club, the University Club, the Lawyers' Club, the Racquet Club, the Country Club, the South Side Sportsmen's Club, the Rockaway Hunting Club, the Automobile Club and the Turf and Field Clubs.

Residences

The Ripley's had a 48-room country home in Hempstead on Long Island (which is today across from Hofstra University at California and Fulton Avenues), known as "Crossways."[9] [10]

In 1901, Ripley had commissioned Warren & Wetmore them a 35-wide mansion in New York's Upper East Side at 16 East 79th Street. The five-story brick-and-limestone Georgian home, that featured a columned portico and two-step porch, was completed shortly before his death in 1905.[11] In 1912, his widow sold their New York City residence, which was described by The New York Times as the "dwelling occupies a plot 35 by 102.2 feet in the choicest upper Fifth Avenue residential section", for $400,000.[12] After she sold the residence, she moved to 101 East 72nd Street.

Personal life

On October 14, 1885, Ripley was married to Mary Baldwin Hyde (1867–1938).[13] Mary was the daughter of Henry Baldwin Hyde, the founder of Equitable Life Assurance, and Annie (née Fitch) Hyde, and the sister of James Hazen Hyde.[14] Together, they were the parents of:

In 1895, Ripley and James Lorillard Kernochan (son of James Powell Kernochan) were arrested in Hempstead for playing golf, on a Sunday, on the greens opposite the clubhouse at the Meadow Brook Hunt Club.[27]

In 1899, he urged his brother, Harry Dillon Ripley, to take charge of his financial affairs after Hyde had run into debt of $100,000. Just before Ripley died, Harry sued Sidney and the Knickerbocker Trust Company alleging "misconduct in managing his property." After his death, the Supreme Court of New York Referee conducted an investigation and found that "the trust had been well and faithfully administered" and Sidney and the Knickerbocker Trust were exonerated and relieved of their duties.[28]

Ripley died of appendicitis on February 24, 1905.[29] His will was quickly probated and his estate, valued in excess of $5,000,000, was left to his family.[30] His wife received their Long Island home, and all "jewelry, horses, carriages, and harness, and all property of the deceased for life." All of the funds in trust he inherited from his grandfather passed to his children.[31] His wife received $848,505 and each of his children received $74,614 directly.[32]

After his death, his widow remarried to Charles R. Scott, a Hong Kong-based British banker who was the son of Col. Robert Scott of the Irish Fusiliers, in Bar Harbor, Maine in 1912.[33] [34] [35]

Descendants

Through his daughter, he was the grandfather of Marie Bonne de Viel Castel (1914–1997),[36] who married Eugene Bowie Roberts Jr. in 1965;[37] [38] Pierre Etienne de Viel Castel (1917–2012); and Édouard Louis de Viel Castel (1911–1968).[39]

Through his son Henry, he was the grandfather of Henry Baldwin Hyde Ripley Jr. (1924–1998), who married Ethel Lachicotte Boyle,[40] and Malcolm Pennington Ripley (1927–2005).[41] [42]

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  1. News: JULIE RIPLEY FORMAN . 21 January 2019 . . July 1, 1975 . en.
  2. News: Molotsky . Irvin . S. Dillon Ripley Dies at 87; Led the Smithsonian Institution During Its Greatest Growth . 21 January 2019 . . 13 March 2001.
  3. Book: Weeks . Lyman Horace . Prominent Families of New York; being an account in biographical form of individuals and families distinguished as representatives of the social, professional and civic life of New York city . 1897 . The Historical company . New York . 82 . 21 January 2019.
  4. Web site: Mary Ripley Date: ca. 1866 - 1938 . emuseum.nyhistory.org . . 21 January 2019.
  5. Book: The Insurance Monitor . 1905 . C.C. Hine's Sons Company . 120 . 21 January 2019 . en.
  6. News: McAllister. Ward. THE ONLY FOUR HUNDRED WARD M'ALLISTER GIVES OUT THE OFFICIAL LIST. HERE ARE THE NAMES, DON'T YOU KNOW, ON THE AUTHORITY OF THEIR GREAT LEADER, YOU UNDER- STAND, AND THEREFORE GENUINE, YOU SEE.. 26 March 2017. The New York Times. 16 February 1892. en.
  7. Book: Patterson . Jerry E. . The First Four Hundred: Mrs. Astor's New York in the Gilded Age . 2000 . Random House Incorporated . 9780847822089 . 217 . 13 June 2018 . en.
  8. Book: Keister. Lisa A.. Getting Rich: America's New Rich and How They Got That Way. 2005. Cambridge University Press. 9780521536677. 36. 20 October 2017. en.
  9. Book: Social Register, Summer . 1903 . . 289 . 21 January 2019 . en.
  10. News: Miss Ripley to Wed on Oct. 15. . 21 January 2019 . . September 16, 1910.
  11. News: Miller . Tom . The Sidney Ripley Mansion -- No. 16 East 79th Street . 21 January 2019 . Daytonian in Manhattan . 29 July 2016.
  12. News: THE REAL ESTATE FIELD Big Seventh Avenue Deal at 58th Street — Mrs. Sidney Dillon Ripley Sells Her Residence for $400,000 — Ancient Bond Street Dwelling at Auction — Suburban Market. . 21 January 2019 . . January 25, 1912.
  13. Web site: Mrs. Sidney Dillon Ripley (ca. 1866-1938) . www.nyhistory.org . . 21 January 2019.
  14. Web site: Spinzia . Raymond E. . Socialite Spies: The Grandchildren of Henry Baldwin Hyde, Sr. . spinzialongislandestates.com . East Islip Historical Society Newsletter . 21 January 2019 . July 2010.
  15. News: SIDNEY D. RIPLEYS HOSTS AT DINNER; Entertain Here in Honor of His Sister, Countess Pierre de Viel Castel PARTY FOR SEWELL TYNGS It Is Given by Her Mother, Mrs. Frederick Haskell--Roger Wisners Have Guests . 21 January 2019 . . March 9, 1939 . en.
  16. News: MISS RIPLEY TO WED A COUNT. Mrs. Sidney Dlllon Rlpley's Daughter Engaged to Pierre Cartel. . 21 January 2019 . . June 28, 1910.
  17. Book: Neuman . Johanna . Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites who Fought for Women's Right to Vote . 2017 . . 9781479837069 . 20 . 21 January 2019 . en.
  18. News: MISS RIPLEY BRIDE OF COUNT CASTEL Niece of James H. Hyde Married to Member of Orleans Family of France. . 21 January 2019 . . October 16, 1910.
  19. News: HENRY B. H. RIPLEY DIES; Investment Banker Dies at 69 -Former Society Leader . 21 January 2019 . . April 21, 1959 . en.
  20. News: MISS PEARSON WED TO HENRY B. RIPLEY Newport Colonists Throng Trinity Church at the Marriage of New Yorkers. . 21 January 2019 . . August 31, 1919.
  21. News: French, Frederica . 21 January 2019 . The Daily Progress . September 20, 2014 . en.
  22. News: Sidney D. Ripley Is Dead; Real-Estate Broker Was 79 . 21 January 2019 . . November 4, 1970 . en.
  23. News: Deaths RIPLEY—James Hazen . 21 January 2019 . . June 29, 1977 . en.
  24. News: MISS M. DOUBLEDAY WEDS J. H. RIPLEY Married in Home of Her Father, George Doubleday -- Her Sister the Only Attendant . 21 January 2019 . . May 5, 1925 . en.
  25. Web site: Mrs. James Hazen Ripley wearing a long-sleeved, dropped-waist crepe... . www.gettyimages.com . . 21 January 2019 . en-us.
  26. News: GLADYS LIVERMORE ENGAGED TO MARRY Betrothal to James H. Ripley, Also of This City, Has Been Announced. GRANDFATHER A BANKER Also a Granddaughter of Late Henry M. Brooks--Fiance Is a Graduate of Harvard . 21 January 2019 . . March 29, 1934 . en.
  27. News: MEADOWBROOK HUNTERS INCENSED Sidney Dillon Ripley and J.L. Kernochan Arrested for Playing Golf on Sunday — Record of the Complainant. . 21 January 2019 . . May 10, 1895.
  28. News: FINDS SIDNEY RIPLEY A FAITHFUL TRUSTEE Referee Disapproves Brother's Suit for an Accounting. HARRY RIPLEY OWED $100,000 And at His Request James Hazen Hyde's Brother-in-Law Tried to Extricate Him. . 21 January 2019 . . July 30, 1905.
  29. News: SIDNEY DILLON RIPLEY DEAD. Victim of Appendicitis Treasurer of the Equitable. . 21 January 2019 . . February 25, 1905.
  30. News: Sidney D. Ripley's Will Probated. . 21 January 2019 . . April 6, 1905.
  31. News: RIPLEY LEFT $5,000,000. Equitable Treasurer Provided for Family Prior to Making Will. . 21 January 2019 . . March 16, 1905.
  32. News: SIDNEY D. RIPLEY'S ESTATE. Equitable Life Man Left More Than $1,000,000 to His Family. . 21 January 2019 . . August 28, 1906.
  33. News: BAR HARBOR IS BUSY ENTERTAINING Mrs. Sidney Dillon Ripley and Her Fiance, Charles R. Scott, Are Widely Feted. . 21 January 2019 . . September 8, 1912.
  34. Book: Beard . Patricia . After the Ball . 2009 . Xlibris Corporation . 9781524526375 . 275 . 21 January 2019 . en.
  35. News: MRS. M. H. RIPLEY BAR HARBOR BRIDE Widow of Sidney Dillon Ripley Married to Charles R. Scott--Reception at Clefstone. . 21 January 2019 . . September 10, 1912.
  36. Book: MacDowell . Dorothy Kelly . Commodore Vanderbilt and his family: a biographical account of the Descendants of Cornelius and Sophia Johnson Vanderbilt . 1989 . D.K. MacDowell . 197 . 21 January 2019 . en.
  37. Book: Ackerson . Constance Pelzer . Holy Trinity-Collington: Her People and Their Church : Two Hundred and Seventy Years . 1978 . Ackerson . 97 . 21 January 2019 . en.
  38. News: Paid Notice: Deaths ROBERTS, MARIE, BONNE DE VIEL CASTEL . 21 January 2019 . . September 11, 1997.
  39. News: E. B. Roberts Weds Miss de VieI-Castel . 21 January 2019 . . December 18, 1965 . en.
  40. Book: Steward . Scott Campbell . The Sarsaparilla Kings: A Biography of Dr. James Cook Ayer and Frederick Ayer with a Record of Their Family . 1993 . S.C. Steward . 100 . 21 January 2019 . en.
  41. News: Henry B. H. Ripley's Son Christened . 21 January 2019 . . April 5, 1927 . en.
  42. News: Paid Notice: Deaths RIPLEY, MALCOLM PENNINGTON . 21 January 2019 . . 24 August 2005.

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