Legacy
A Liberty Ship, hull number 2690, was named Edward P. Ripley in his honor (see List of Liberty ships).
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 when the Arizona and California Railroad's Blythe Branch was originally intended to be a shortcut to San Diego until his retirement/death as the branch reaches to the town in 1920.
Ripley, Oklahoma, once on the Santa Fe tracks, was also named after him.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)