History Founding. Ripon was founded in 1849 by David P. Mapes, a former New York steamboat captain.Within two years the city had absorbed the nearby commune of Ceresco, established in 1844 by the Wisconsin Phalanx, a group of settlers inspired by the communitarian socialist philosophy of Charles Fourier.Mapes was a founder of Ripon College, originally incorporated as …

The Ripon Society is an American centrist Republican public policy organization and think tank based in Washington, D.C. It publishes The Ripon Forum, the U.S.'s longest running Republican thought and opinion journal, as well as The Ripon Advance, a daily news publication.. Founded in 1962 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Society's name comes from the 1854 birthplace of the …

The best college in Wisconsin on the University Review Rankings is the University of Wisconsin – Madison placed 20th of the best colleges in the USA and 21st in the world university rankings; find out more.Other renown colleges in the state include the Medical college of Wisconsin (508 to 568 range in the world; more).Of the smaller establishments the best colleges in Wisconsin on the …