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Larned. He was graduated from Yale in 1826, taught school in Salisbury, N. C, 1826-28, was a tutor in Yale, 1828-31, and then studied theology. He took charge of a pastorate in Millbury, Mass., in May, 1834, resigned in the latter part of 1835 on account of ill-health and united with the Rev. Dr. Nathaniel S. S. Beruan in directing a theo- logical school in Troy, N.Y. He taught Hebrew and Greek there until 1839, when the school was discontinued. He was professor of rhetoric and English literature at Yale, 1839-62, succeeding Chauncey Allen Goodrich. He was editor of the New Englander (1854-55), and a regular contrib- utor to that periodical. He wrote and printed an edition of the Oration of Demosthenes on the Crown, with philological and rhetorical notes, which was never published. He died in New Haven, Conn., Feb. 3, 1862.

LARRABEE, Charles Hathaway, represent- ative, was born in Rome, N.Y., Nov. 9, 1820. His parents removed to Ohio, where he was edu- cated at Granville college, studied law, and en- gaged as a civil engineer in the construction of the Little Miami railroad. He removed to Pon- totoc, Miss., in 1842, where he was admitted to the bar, practised law and was an unsuccessful candidate for representative in the state legisla- ture. In 1844 he removed to Chicago, 111., where he was editor of the Democratic Advocate, and in 1846 was elected city attorney. He removed to Wisconsin Territory in 1847, where he founded the village of Horicon, and was a delegate to the state constitutional convention. Upon the ad- mission of the state in 1848 he became judge of the supreme court, serving 1848-58. He was a Democratic representative in the 36th congress, 1859-61 ; and in April, 1861, he organized a com- pany of volunteers for the 1st Wisconsin regiment, and was commissioned 1st lieutenant. He was commissioned major of the 5th Winconsin in- fantry in May, 1861, and colonel of the 24th Wis- consin regiment in August, 1862. He served on the iDeninsula under McClellan, in the valley under Sheridan, and in the Army of the Tennessee and the army of the Cumberland. He resigned, Aug. 27, 1863, on account of failing health and entered the invalid corps. He removed to California in 1864, practised law at Salem, Ore., and at Seattle, Wash., and finally at San Bernardino, Cal. He died in Tehachapi Pass, Cal., Jan. 20, 1883.

LARRABEE, William, governor of Iowa, was burn in Ledyard, Conn., Jan. 20, 1832 ; son of Adam and Hannah Gallup (Lester) Larrabee. He removed to Clermont, Iowa, in 1853, and be- came the owner of 10,000 acres of farm lands. He also engaged in the manufacture of flour at Clermont, where he conducted a private bank. He was married, Sept. 12, 1861, to Ann M., daughter of G. A. and Prudence Appleman, of Clermont.

He was a Republican state senator, 1868-86, and while in the senate served as chairman of the committee on ways and means, 1870-86. He was governor of Iowa, 1886-90, after which he devoted himself to the cultivation of his farm and to his banking interests. He was chairman of the board of control of state institutions from April 6, 1898, to Feb. 14, 1900. He is the author of : The Railroad Question (1893).

LARRABEE, William Clark, educator, was born at Cape Elizabeth, Maine, Dec. 23, 1802; grandson of Jonathan and Alice (Davis) Larra- bee ; and a descendant of Stephen Larrabee, of Maiden, Mass., and North Yarmouth, Maine. He was graduated at Bowdoin college, A.B., 1828, A.M., 1831. He was married, in 1828, to Harriet, daughter of Col. William and Nancy (Farrington) Dunn, of East Poland, Maine. He taught school at Alfred, Maine, 1828-30 ; taught in the W^esleyan academy, afterward Wesleyan university, Mid- dletown. Conn., 1830-31 ; was principal of Oneida Conference seminary at Cazenovia, N.Y., 1831-35 ; and in 1832 joined the Oneida conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was principal of the Maine Wesleyan seminary, Kent's Hill, 1835-37, and assistant to Dr. Charles T. Jackson on the first geological survey of Maine, in 1837. He was professor of mathematics and natural science at Indiana Asbury university, Green- castle, Ind., 1840-43 ; professor of mathematics, 1843-52 ; emeritus professor of Oriental languages and literature, 1852-57 ; and also served as act- ing president of the university for one year. He was elected the first state superintendent of public instruction of Indiana in 1852, and effected the first organization of the public-school system of the state, 1853-54 ; and after an intermission of one term of two years, was re-elected to the same office in 1856. He received the degree of LL.D. from McKendree college about 1850, and from the Indiana State university about 1853. He was a regular contributor to the Ladies' Repository, Cincinnati, Ohio, from its start, and was acting editor of that magazine for six months in 1851-52. He is the author of : Scientific Evidences of Nat- ural and Revealed Religion (1850); Wesley and his Coadjutors (2 vols., 1851); Asbiiry and his Co-laborers (2 vols., 1853); Rosabower (1854). He died in Greencastle, Ind., May 4, 1859.

LARRABEE, William Henry, editor, was born in Alfred, Maine, Sept. 20, 1829 ; son of the Rev. William Clark and Harriet (Dunn) Larrabee ; grandson of Col. William and Nancy (Farrington) Dunn, of East Poland, Maine, and a descendant of Stephen Larrabee, of Maiden, Mass., and North Yarmouth, Maine. He was graduated at Indiana Asbury university, A.B., 1845, A.M., 1848. He studied law and was admitted to practice in the supreme court of Indiana in 1856, in which year