RIDPATH, GILLUM: 1842-1881.
Gillum Ridpath was born in Putnam County, Ind., on Aug. 7, 1842, and graduated from De Pauw University in 1867, receiving the A.M. degree in 1870. He married Elizabeth Lupher on Nov. 11, 1877.
He was associated with public school administration in various Indiana communities–Greencastle, Anderson, Martinsville, Zionsville, and Scottsburg. For one year, 1877-78, he was professor of mathematics at Tullahoma Collegiate Institute in Tennessee , and prior to his death, which occurred on Nov. 4, 1881, in Aurora, Ill., he was professor of science at Jennings Seminary in Aurora .
Information from De Pauw University's Alumnal Record, 1920.
- A History of Putnam County, Indiana. 1879.
