Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Edward Payson Ripley, sometimes referred to as Edward P. Ripley or E. P. Ripley, was the fourteenth president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Ripley was born on October 30, 1845, in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Although his family had settled in the American colonies as early as 1638, his family's most prestigious quality was that there were nine blacksmiths in his ancestry. Ripley attended public schools, entering the workforce in 1862 at a dry goods merchant's in Boston.