Joseph Charles aka Charless Cabanne

   Cause of his death was Cut his throat with a razor after suffering with pneumonia for 6 weeks Suicide.

  General Notes:

in 1880 census he's listed as a merchant


He was one of the incorporators of the Civic Federation of St. Louis established to help civic reform according to the Encylopedia of the History of Missouri. Charles cabanne was the first President but had to resign after a few months due to poor health and business engagements.

in the Centennial History of Missouri (bio in part)

Joseph Charless Cabanne who is the president of the St. Louis Dairy Company, the most extensive enterprise of the kind in Missouri.

In 1868 in this city Joseph C. Cabanne was married to Miss Susan C. Mitchell, a daughter of Colonel D. D. Mitchell who belonged to one of the old families of the city and was well known as one of the foremost political leaders during his active life. Mrs. Cabanne passed away in March 1910 leaving five children: John P, vice president of the St. Louis Dairy Company; Virginia, the wife of E.W. Little, a wine dealer of New York City; Martha Kyser, wife of Robert L. Kyser, manager of the St. Louis Dairy Company; and Fannie, wife of A. L. Pearson of Sewickley, Pennsylvania, and vice president and sales manager of the Consumers fuel Company of Pittsburg; and Susy M., the wife of J. Sheppard Smith, vice president of the Mississippi Valley Trust Company of St. Louis. Mr. Cabanne has been a lifelong resident of St. louis, making his home here for 74 years. He is the most courteous and genial gentleman wiht whom it is a pleasure to meet and converse. He has ever manifested consistent interest in his native city. He supports all of those activities which are a matter of civic virtue and of civic pride and his co-operation can at all times be counted upon to further any plans for the public good. He fully sustains the reputation of a prominent and honorable old family whose record is interwoven with the city's history.

Another bio:
Native St. Louisan & direct descentent of Madame Chouteau. On the advise of his uncle, Cabanne got into the dairy business. He began with the Mont Cabanne Dairy located in what is now Forest Park & then established the St. Louis Dairy Company. His innovations included the covered milk wagons, the first creamery, the first delivery of milk in bottles and the selling of whole milk at a cheaper price than skimmed milk in St. Louis. Mr. Cabanne was the first president of the Civic League and one of the founders of the Missouri Athletic Club

Joseph married Susan Martha Preston aka Sunie Mitchell Cabanne, daughter of Colonel David Dawson Mitchell and Martha Eliza Berry, in 1868 in St. Louis. (Susan Martha Preston aka Sunie Mitchell Cabanne was born on 13 Feb 1847 in St. Louis Missouri, died on 8 Mar 1910 in St. Louis, MO and was buried in Calvary Cemetery StLouis.). The cause of her death was fatty heart - heart.