Henry Ripley, 1847-1914, was born in Dunham, Nottinghamshire, England, and died in Montrose, Colorado. By 1870 he was living in Canon City, Colorado, where he married Martha Pedley Ripley, 1856- (b. Pedley) in 1874. He was a job printer and also operated the Canon City Times newspaper. In 1877 the Ripleys, along with their printing equipment, moved to the mining town of Ouray, Colorado, where Ripley and his brother, William Ripley, started the Ouray Times newspaper, becoming its editor and publisher. He also engaged in farming in Ouray. He sold the newspaper in mid-1886, and sometime thereafter the Ripleys moved to Montrose and began a farming and ranching operation. In their later years, the Ripleys wrote a book entitled Hand-Clasp of the East and West: A Story of Pioneer Life on the Western Slope of Colorado. Henry died a few months before it was completed, and Martha finished and published it in 1914. Henry and Martha both studied Christian Science with Ella Peck Sweet, one of Mary Baker Eddy's students. They both joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 6, 1895, and they were both practitioners listed in the The Christian Science Journal: Henry in 1908, and Martha from 1900 to 1931. In 1900 Henry wrote an article supportive of Christian Science in the Montrose Enterprise newspaper entitled "Is Christian Science Christian?"

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