History of Alfred, (York County) Maine United States of America

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William Henry Larrabee, 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 Malden, 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 he married Letitia Frazier, daughter of Asbury and Mary (Bell) Frazier, of Cincinnati, Ohio. He removed to .New York in 1862, and was assistant editor of The Methodist, 1862-65; associate editor of the Brooklyn Daily Union, 1865-69; assistant editor of The Methodist, 1870-77; assistant editor of the Popular Science Monthly from 1880; contributor of articles on ecclesiastical transactions, arch?eology and other subjects to "Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia" from 1870; contributor to Kiddie and Schem's, "Cyclopedia of Education" (1877), and "Year Book of Education" (1878); joint author with A. J. Schem, of History of the Way in the East (1879); contributor, from 1890, of the department "Life in the Churches" in the Christian Advocate, New York city; and translator or editor of numerous publications including The Gilded Man, by A. F. Bandelier, and The Beginnings of Art, by Ernst Gross. He received the degree of LL.D. from DePauw university in 1888.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Alfred, (York County) Maine

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