Edward Payson Ripley
Edward Payson Ripley (October 30, 1845 – February 4, 1920), sometimes referred to as Edward P. Ripley or E. P. Ripley, was the fourteenth president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
Youth and education
Ripley was born on October 30, 1845, in
Ripley attended public schools, entering the workforce in 1862 at a dry goods merchant's in
Santa Fe leadership
On December 1, 1895, as the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway emerged from receivership, Ripley became the Santa Fe's president. After the financial scandals that brought on the railroad's bankruptcy in the earlier part of the decade, Ripley had his work cut out for him to restore the public opinion of the railroad. He served as president until January 1, 1920.[1] He is interred at Bronswood Cemetery in Oak Brook, Illinois.
Legacy
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Disneyland Railroad locomotive number 2, a 4-4-0 built in 1954 by the Disney shops, was named E. P. Ripley in his honor.
Ripley, California, is a town named after him and established in 1920 in the endpoint of the California Southern Railroad's (unrelated to the railroad linking San Diego and Barstow) line from Rice, California through Blythe; the line was envisioned to be a shortcut to San Diego.[2] The Arizona and California Railroad last operated trains in this line in 2007 before abandoning most of the line in 2009.
Ripley, Oklahoma, once on Santa Fe tracks, was also named after him.
EP Ripley Park, was established in the heart of Marceline Missouri (Boyhood Hometown Of Walt Disney)in 1898. [3] Marceline was established by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in 1888 as a division point between Kansas City and Chicago.
Footnotes
- ^ Armitage, Merle (1973). Homage to the Santa Fe; The many facets of big time railroading (reprinted 1986 ed.). Hawthorne, California: Omni Publications. p. 139.
- ISBN 978-0-7603-0380-1.
- ^ Walt Disney Hometown Museum
References
- Bryant Jr., Keith L. (1974). History of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska. ISBN 0-8032-6066-0.
- Waters, Lawrence Leslie (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas.
- OCLC 1785797.