Anna Matilda Larrabee (née, Appelman; August 13, 1842 – December 30, 1931) was an American social leader.

Her grandfather, John Frederick Appclman, was the son of a Lutheran minister stationed in Wolgast, near the city of Stettin.

He arrived in the United States in 1805, and shortly afterward took up his residence in Mystic, Connecticut, engaging in the fishing business and ship-rigging.

His son, Gustavus, early followed the sea, and was, while still a very young man, placed in command of a whaler, upon which he made a number of long and very successful voyages.

Mr. Williams was in succession judge of New London County, Connecticut and member of both houses of the Legislature in his native State.

Captain Appelman, tired of a sailor's life, in 1854, abandoned the sea and removed with his family westward to engage in farming.

[1] Anna's siblings were John, Noyes, Hannah, Erastus, Lucy, Elias, Franz, and Lydia.

[1] Mr. Larrabee was elected to the Iowa state senate in 1867 and occupied the position continuously for 17 years, and almost the entire time as chair of the ways and means committee.

[7] On January 27, 1892, Governor Horace Boies appointed the Iowa Woman's Auxiliary to the American Red Cross, the use of the name having been sanctioned by Clara Barton; Mrs. Larrabee was designated as president.

[12] Helen married Charles Burton Robbins, a future United States Assistant Secretary of War.

[1] She served as Clerk of Vestry, in Clermont's Episcopal Church of the Saviour,[14] and as superintendent of the Union Sunday School for more than 30 years.