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Sidney Dillon Ripley (1913-2001), Secretary of the Smithsonian, one of the great Ripleys of the New World. Great grandson of Sidney Dillon (1812-1902), one of the builders of the Union Pacific and present for the Last Spike in 1869. Dillon Ripley is also a Mayflower Descendant, and in the direct line of William Ripley, Planter of the Commonwealth (1598-1656), Progenitor of the American Ripleys.
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