Ripley attended public schools, entering the workforce in 1862 at a dry goods merchant's in Boston.
Disneyland Railroad locomotive number 2, a 4-4-0 built in 1954 by the Disney shops, was named E. P. Ripley in his honor.
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.
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