Born to Gamaliel and Elizabeth Hickling Bradford, Sarah Alden Bradford grew up in Boston and Duxbury. In 1818, she married Samuel Ripley—son of the Reverend Ezra Ripley of Concord and half brother of Ralph Waldo Emerson's father William. The Ripleys spent most of their married life in Waltham, where Samuel served as a minister and ran a boarding school for boys. On Samuel's retirement in 1846, the Ripleys moved into the Old Manse in Concord, where the widowed Sarah remained after her husband's sudden death in 1847.Proficient in ancient and modern languages, literature, science, mathematics, and history, Sarah Ripley—a lifelong practitioner of self-culture—was a well-educated, thoughtful woman.
Born to Gamaliel and Elizabeth Hickling Bradford, Sarah Alden Bradford grew up in Boston and Duxbury. In 1818, she married Samuel Ripley—son of the Reverend Ezra Ripley of Concord and half brother of Ralph Waldo Emerson's father William. The Ripleys spent most of their married life in Waltham, where Samuel served as a minister and ran a boarding school for boys. On Samuel's retirement in 1846, the Ripleys moved into the Old Manse in Concord, where the widowed Sarah remained after her husband's sudden death in 1847.Proficient in ancient and modern languages, literature, science, mathematics, and history, Sarah Ripley—a lifelong practitioner of self-culture—was a well-educated, thoughtful woman.
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