Hayes Branch Family Tree - Ridgely Prentiss MELVIN

Person Chart

Partners

Partner	Date of Birth	Children

Mary MACNEILL	17 Jul 1921	Jane Hayes MELVIN Elizabeth MELVIN Mary Anne MELVIN

Person Events

Event Type	Date	Place	Description
Birth	26 Sep 1917	Annapolis, Anne Arundel, Maryland, United States
Place of Residence	1920	Bay Ridge, Anne Arundel, Maryland, United States	Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son
Marriage	ABT 1945
Death	09 Oct 1999	Annapolis, Anne Arundel, Maryland, United States

Notes


Ridgely Prentiss Melvin Jr. '40 Maryland special appeals judge and ocean mariner extraordinaire, Ridgely Melvin died at his Annapolis residence on Oct. 11, 1999. Ridge was born and lived almost his entire life at Melvin Point, overlooking the Chesapeake Bay's South River. He came to Princeton from Alexandra, Va., Episcopal H.S., majored in politics, and was a member of Cap and Gown. He was on the freshman and jayvee swimming teams, played end on our championship 150lb. football teams, and was active in the Yacht Club. During WWII Ridge served as an officer aboard the battleship Washington in the Pacific naval campaigns. As a devoted yachtsman from childhood, Ridge raced in a variety of classes and won the Triton Class Nat]. Championship in the early 1970s. In 1985 he and second wife Lucy sailed their sloop Song across the Atlantic. For the next eight years they lived aboard while sailing through European and Mediterranean waters. Ridge's law career was distinguished both as a judge and trial lawyer. He was a member of the threejudge panel that disbarred V.P. Agnew for "deceitful and dishonest conduct" and found him untit as a member of the Maryland bar. The class extends its sympathy to Ridge's entire family including his sister, Elizabeth, widow of Don Patterson. We will miss Ridge. The Class of 1940

Ridgely Prentiss Melvin Jr. '40

Maryland special appeals judge and ocean mariner extraordinaire,
Ridgely Melvin died at his Annapolis residence on Oct. 11, 1999.
Ridge was born and lived almost his entire life at Melvin Point, overlooking the Chesapeake Bay's South River. He came to Princeton from Alexandra, Va., Episcopal H.S., majored in politics, and was a member of Cap and Gown. He was on the freshman and jayvee swimming teams, played end on our championship 150lb. football teams, and was active in the Yacht Club. During WWII Ridge served as an officer aboard the battleship Washington in the Pacific naval campaigns. As a devoted yachtsman from childhood, Ridge raced in a variety of classes and won the Triton Class Nat]. Championship in the early 1970s. In 1985 he and second wife Lucy sailed their sloop Song across the Atlantic. For the next eight years they lived aboard while sailing through European and Mediterranean waters.

Ridge's law career was distinguished both as a judge and trial lawyer. He was a member of the threejudge panel that disbarred V.P. Agnew for "deceitful and dishonest conduct" and found him untit as a member of the Maryland bar.

The class extends its sympathy to Ridge's entire family including his sister, Elizabeth, widow of Don Patterson. We will miss Ridge.

The Class of 1940

Sources

Description	Page	Quality	Information	Evidence
1920 United States Federal Census, Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;	Year: 1920; Census Place: Bay Ridge, Anne Arundel, Maryland; Roll: T625_653; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 5; Image: 744	Don't know	Don't know	Don't know
Ancestry Family Trees, Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;	Ancestry Family Trees	Don't know	Don't know	Don't know
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;	Number: 220-36-5742; Issue State: Maryland; Issue Date: 1956.	Don't know	Don't know	Don't know

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