sentences:  In 1890, he arrived in Bellingham, Washington and associated himself with Nelson Bennett, the founder of Tacoma, Washington.Together they founded the town of Fairhaven and formed the Fairhaven Land Company, which was financed by Larrabee, who was also president of the company in 1896.Larrabee later purchased the land company holdings of his partner and retained control of the corporation until his death, doing work in land development, including building the Fairhaven Hotel, described by one reporter of the "Fairhaven Herald" as "million-dollar edifice."