Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888,
Jefferson Co.

BENJAMIN H. RIDGELY is a native of Baltimore, Md.; was born July 13, 1859,
and is a son of Frederick W. and Harriet (Isett) Ridgely.  The Ridgely
family was a very old one in Maryland, and came over with Lord Baltimore.
Frederick R. Ridgely, great-grandfather of Benjamin H., was a surgeon in
the Continental army during the Revolutionary war.  The subject of this
sketch came to Louisville in 1879, but had lived in Woodford County for
some years before coming to this city.  He was a reporter on the
Courier-Journal for four years, and won an excellent reputation as a
newspaper writer.  He is a young man with a fine vein of humor and almost
exhaustless wit, which gives to his articles a characteristic flavor. After
leaving the Courier-Journal he was for a time connected with the Argus, a
paper recently deceased; afterward he was city editor of the Commercial,
which position he resigned to take editorial charge of Truth.  He was
married, in November, 1885, to Miss Sophronia Braunin.

Ridgely Isett Braunin
=
Woodford-KY MD

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