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Excerpt from Coadjutors
Marmaduke Gwynne, Esq., of Wales - Charles Wesley visits the family - Mr. Gwynne and his daughter visit Bristol and London Marriage of Charles Wesley with Sarah Gwynne - The union 3 happy one - Afflictive bereavements - Account of the surviving children..
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William Clark Larrabee was an American clergyman and educator. He was the third president of Depauw University.
Background
William Clark Larrabee was a descendant of Stephen Larrabee, one of the pioneers of North Yarmouth, Maine. William's grandparents were Jonathan and Alice (Davis) Larrabee, and he was born at Cape Elizabeth, Maine, his father, a sea captain, dying soon after the boy's birth. From his seventh year, he lived with his grandparents, and with his uncle Jonathan, at Durham, Maine, working on the farm. In his youth he was associated with Eliphalet Clark, who became a lifelong friend, and from whom he adopted his middle name.
Education
He attended New Market Academy in New Hampshire, and later, Farmingham Academy, Maine, where he was prepared to enter the sophomore class at Bowdoin College, from which he graduated in 1828.
Career
Larrabee was licensed to preach in 1821. From 1828 to 1830 he was principal of Alfred Academy, Maine, and in 1830 he was appointed tutor of a preparatory school at Middletown, Connecticut, which was the forerunner of Wesleyan University.
The next year he was made the principal of Oneida Conference Seminary, Cazenovia, New York, and in 1832 was admitted to membership in the Oneida Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. After four successful years at Cazenovia, he became the principal of Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Kents Hill, where he enlarged his reputation as an educator.
In 1837-38 he also assisted in the first geological survey of the state. He was a delegate to the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Baltimore in 1840, and there met Matthew Simpson, the young president of a new Methodist institution, Indiana Asbury University (De Pauw University), just established at Greencastle. Simpson persuaded Larrabee to accept the professorship of mathematics and natural science, and from 1841 to 1852 he was not only a leading member of the faculty, but from 1848 to 1849, was the acting president.
In 1848 he was one of the board of visitors at the United States Military Academy, West Point, and later was offered, but declined, several important educational positions, among them the presidency of Indiana and of Iowa universities. Elected in 1852 editor of the Ladies' Repository, a Methodist magazine published in Cincinnati, he soon resigned to accept nomination, on the Democratic ticket, for the superintendency of public instruction in the state of Indiana, to which he was elected. The new state constitution (1851) made provision for a uniform system of public schools, and Larrabee, the first state superintendent, was in a sense the founder of the Indiana public-school system.
In 1854 he was defeated for reëlection, but in 1856 was again chosen to that office and devoted his second term to a reconstruction of the school system, the former school laws having been declared unconstitutional. He retired from office in January 1859 and died the following May.
Achievements
Larrabee introduced numerous reforms in the course of study and did much to raise educational standards.
His famous writings included: "Lectures on the Scientific Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion" (1850); "Wesley and His Coadjutors" (2 vols. , 1851); "Asbury and His Coadjutors" (2 vols. , 1853); and a little volume of essays entitled "Rosabower" (1854), consisting of articles published in the Ladies' Repository. The first essay was a fanciful description of the grounds about his Indiana home and the death of his little daughter.
Larrabee was married, September 28, 1828, to Harriet, daughter of Col. William Dunn, and was the father of four children. He named his house at Greencastle "Rosabower" in memory of a daughter who died in infancy and was buried in the grounds, which are now a part of the campus of De Pauw University.
