Obituary: Ozaukee County, Wisconsin: C. H. LARRABEE ************************************************************************ Submitted by Mary Saggio, August 2007 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ The Weekly Star January 27, 1883 Port Washington, Ozaukee, Wisconsin C. H. LARRABEE This gentleman, well-known in this county, was killed by a railroad accident in Southern California, on Friday, January 19. The Milwaukee Sentinel gives the following information concerning him: Ex-Congressman LARRABEE, who was killed in the accident on the Southern Pacific road, came from Chicago to this state in the pioneer days and settled at Port Washington. He was elected judge of the second judicial circuit. The state supreme court then consisted of the judges of the several circuit courts, and after being elected chief justice he held that office for one or two years. On the organization of the present supreme court, in 1862, he was the democratic candidate for chief justice with the late A. D. SMITH, of this city, and Samuel CRAWFORD, as candidates for associate justices on the same ticket. He was defeated by the late Edward V. WHITON, of Janesville, who held the office until his death in 1850. The other two democratic judges were elected, constituting the first separate supreme court of the state. Later he was elected to congress for one term only, being defeated for the second term by the late Charles BILLINGSHURST. In 1861, at the outbreak of the war, he was appointed by Gov. RANDALL to the position of major of the Fifth Wisconsin infantry, of which Amasa COBB, justice of Nebraska was colonel. Maj. LARRABEE served through a portion of the war, and when he resigned he returned to this state. A year or two afterwards he went to California, residing first at San Francisco and Los Angelos and afterwards removing to Oregon and later to Seattle on Puget Sound, Washington Territory, where he was for a short time associated with Beriah BROWN in publishing The Territorial Dispatch. he next went to the newly discovered gold diggings on Erazer river, and afterwards returned to Southern California, where he has since resided. He was a bright, genial and accomplished gentleman, a very fair judge and a good lawyer. He was an able stump speaker, extremely ambitious, and expected to reach the highest offices. He was but a little over 21 years of age when he was elected judge of the circuit court, and was a prominent member of the old democratic regime which included Gov. DEWEY, Gen. HOBART, Alexander GRAY and their associates.