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The Cabot family is one of the Boston Brahmin families, also known as the "first families of Boston".




History






= Family

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The Boston Brahmin Cabot family descended from John Cabot (born 1680 in Jersey, a British Crown Dependency and one of the Channel Islands), who emigrated from his birthplace to Salem, Massachusetts in 1700.
The Cabot family emigrated from Jersey, where the family name can be traced back to at least 1274. In Latin, caput means "head", and the Rev. George Balleine writes that in Jersey the "cabot" is a small fish that seems all head. In French, once a commonly spoken language in Jersey, "cabot" means a dog, or a military corporal, "caboter" is to navigate along the coast, and "cabotin" means "theatrical".




= Rise to prominence

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John Cabot (born 1680 Isle of Jersey) and his son, Joseph Cabot (born 1720 in Salem), became highly successful merchants, operating a fleet of privateers carrying opium, rum, and slaves. Shipping during the eighteenth century was the lifeblood of most of Boston's first families. Joseph's sons, Joseph Cabot Jr. (born 1746 in Salem), George Cabot (born 1752 in Salem), and Samuel Cabot (born 1758 in Salem), left Harvard to work their way through shipping, furthering the family fortune and becoming extraordinarily wealthy. Two of the earliest U.S. Supreme Court cases, Bingham v. Cabot (1795) and Bingham v. Cabot (1798), involved family shipping disputes. In 1784, Samuel Cabot relocated to Boston.



George Cabot

George Cabot and his descendants went into politics. George Cabot became a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, and was appointed but declined to be first Secretary of the Navy. His great-grandson, Henry Cabot Lodge (born 1850 in Boston) was also a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 1893 until his death in 1924. In the 1916 election, Henry Cabot Lodge defeated John F. Fitzgerald, former mayor of Boston and the maternal grandfather of John, Robert and Edward Kennedy. George's great-great-great grandson, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (born 1902 in Nahant) was also U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 1937 to 1943 and from 1946 to 1953, when he lost to John F. Kennedy in the 1952 Senate election. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. went on to be the U.S. Ambassador to United Nations under President Eisenhower and ambassador to South Vietnam under President Kennedy. He was 1960 vice presidential candidate for Richard Nixon against Kennedy–Lyndon B. Johnson. George's other great-great-great grandson, John Davis Lodge (born 1903 in Washington, D.C.) was the 64th Governor of Connecticut. George's great-great-great-great grandson, George Cabot Lodge II (born 1927, son of Henry Cabot Lodge) ran against the successful Edward M. Kennedy in the United States Senate special election in Massachusetts, 1962.



Samuel Cabot


From John Cabot's grandson, Samuel Cabot's side, Samuel Cabot Jr. (born 1784 in Boston) furthered the family fortune by combining the first family staples of working in shipping and marrying money. In 1812, he married Eliza Perkins, daughter of merchant king Colonel Thomas Perkins. Samuel Cabot III (born 1815 in Boston) was an eminent surgeon, whose daughter, Lilla Cabot Perry, was a noted Impressionist artist. His son, Godfrey Lowell Cabot (born 1861 in Boston) founded Cabot Corporation, the largest carbon black producer in the country, used for inks and paints. Godfrey's son, John Moors Cabot (born 1901 in Cambridge), a great-great-grandson of Samuel, was a U.S. Ambassador to Sweden, Colombia, Brazil, and Poland during the Eisenhower and Kennedy administration. Another great-great grandson, Paul Codman Cabot (born 1898 in Brookline), was cofounder of America's first mutual fund and "Harvard's [Endowment] Midas".




= Boston Toast

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The widely known "Boston Toast" by Holy Cross alumnus John Collins Bossidy features the Cabot family:




Kabotchnik v. Cabot


In 1923, Harry H. Kabotchnik and his wife Myrtle petitioned to have his family name changed to Cabot.
Some prominent Cabots of Boston (Judge Cabot of the Boston Juvenile Court; Stephen Cabot, headmaster of St. George's School, Middletown, R.I.; Dr. Hugh Cabot, dean of Michigan University Medical School) along with the Pennsylvania branch of the Order of the Founders and Patriots, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania counter-sued to prevent the change.
Judge Charles Young Audenried eventually ruled for the Kabotchniks, as there was "nothing in the law to prevent it."




Members


John Cabot (b. 1680 in Isle of Jersey) - successful ship merchant
Elizabeth Cabot (b. 1715), married Stephen H. Higginson
Stephen Higginson (b. 1743)
Sarah Higginson (b. 1745), first wife of John Lowell
John Lowell Jr. (b. 1769)
Francis Cabot (b. 1717 in Salem) – ship merchant
Susanna Cabot (b. 1754), second wife of John Lowell
Francis Cabot Lowell (b. 1775 in Newburyport) – cofounded Harvard's Porcellian Club, helped introduce power loom in U.S.
Joseph Cabot (b. 1720 in Salem) – successful ship merchant
Capt. John Cabot (b. 1745 in Salem) – cofounded America's first cotton mill, John Cabot House namesake
Joseph Cabot Jr. (b. 1746 in Salem) – ship merchant
George Cabot (b. 1752 in Salem) – successful ship merchant, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, appointed but declined to be first Secretary of the Navy
Henry Cabot (b. 1783)
Anna Cabot (b. 1821)
Henry Cabot Lodge (b. 1850 in Boston) – U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and ardent opponent of Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations
George Cabot Lodge (b. 1873 in Boston) – poet
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (b. 1902 in Nahant, MA) – U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, incumbent 1952 U.S. Senate candidate from Massachusetts against John F. Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador to United Nations and South Vietnam, and 1960 vice presidential candidate for Richard Nixon against Kennedy–Lyndon B. Johnson
George Cabot Lodge II (b. 1927) – Harvard Business School professor, 1962 U.S. Senate candidate from Massachusetts against Edward M. Kennedy
John Davis Lodge (b. 1903 in Washington, D.C.) – 64th Governor of Connecticut
Francis Cabot (b. 1757 in Salem)
Mary Ann Cabot (b. 1784) - married her first cousin, Nathaniel Cabot Lee (b. 1772), son of Joseph Lee and Elizabeth Cabot (daughter of Joseph Cabot)
John Clarke Lee (b. 1804 in Boston)
George Cabot Lee (b. 1830 in Boston)
Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt (b. 1861), first wife of President Theodore Roosevelt
Frederick Cabot (b. 1786 in Salem)
Francis Cabot (b. 1825 in Newton, Massachusetts)
Francis Higginson Cabot (b. 1859 in Boston)
Francis Higginson Cabot (b. 1896) — vice president, Stone & Webster
Francis Higginson Cabot (b. 1925 in New York City) — noted gardener and horticulturist
Samuel Cabot (b. 1758 in Salem) — successful ship merchant
Samuel Cabot Jr. (b. 1784 in Boston) — shipping businessman
Samuel Cabot III (b. 1815 in Boston) – eminent surgeon
Lilla Cabot (b. 1848 in Boston) – among first American impressionist artists, contributor to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Samuel Cabot IV (b. 1850) – chemist, founder of Valspar's Cabot Stains
Arthur Tracy Cabot (b. 1852 in Boston) – progressive surgeon
Godfrey Lowell Cabot (b. 1861 in Boston) – founder of Cabot Corporation, philanthropist who sponsored the restoration of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology's complete Kronosaurus skeleton.
James Jackson Cabot (b. 1891 in Cambridge)
Thomas Dudley Cabot (b. 1897 in Cambridge) – businessman and philanthropist, Cabot House namesake
Louis Wellington Cabot – businessman, philanthropist, former chairman of Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, married Mabel Hobart
Linda Cabot Black – cofounder of Opera Company of Boston and Opera New England
Sophie Cabot Black (b. 1958) – poet
John Moors Cabot (b. 1901 in Cambridge) – U.S. Ambassador to Sweden, Colombia, Brazil, and Poland during the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations
Lewis Cabot
Eleanor Cabot – Eleanor Cabot Bradley Estate namesake
Edward Clarke Cabot (b. 1818) — architect and artist
Elizabeth Cabot Lee (b. 1819 in Boston) — philanthropist and co-sponsor of the Harvard Museum of Natural History's famous Glass Flowers exhibit. Widely known as Elizabeth C. Ware (her married name).
James Elliot Cabot (b. 1821 in Boston) — philosopher and author
Richard Clarke Cabot (b. 1868 in Brookline, Massachusetts) — clinical physician, social work pioneer
Hugh Cabot (b. 1872 in Beverly Farms)
Hugh Cabot (b. 1905 in Boston)
Hugh Cabot III (b. 1930 in Boston) — painter
Walter Channing Cabot (b. 1829)
Henry Bromfield Cabot (b. 1861 in Boston) – lawyer
Paul Codman Cabot (b. 1898 in Brookline)
Charles Codman Cabot (b. 1900 in Brookline) — associate judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, Boston Bar Association president
Elise Cabot Forbes (b. 1869) — maternal grandmother of Michael Paine
Eliza Lee Cabot Follen (b. 1787 in Boston) – abolitionist and writer




Cabot family network






= Associates

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The following is a list of figures closely aligned with or subordinate to the Cabot family.

Nathan Appleton
Samuel Bodman
Sarah Caldwell
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Augustus Peabody Gardner
Prescott F. Hall
Alexander Hamilton
Patrick Tracy Jackson
Abbott Lawrence
John Lowell
Harrison Gray Otis
T.H. Perkins
Thomas S. Perry
Josiah Quincy Jr.
Theodore Roosevelt
Israel Thorndike
John Train
Sam Zemurray




= Businesses

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The following is a list of companies in which the Cabot family have held a controlling or otherwise significant interest.

Beverly Cotton Manufactory
Boston Manufacturing Company
Cabot, Cabot & Forbes
Cabot Corporation
Gulf Central Pipeline Company
Holtzer-Cabot Electrical Company
John & Andrew Cabot and Company
Lee, Higginson & Co.
Opera Company of Boston
Radio Swan
Samuel Cabot, Inc.
Southworth Machine Company
State Street Investment Corporation
Train, Cabot & Associates
United Fruit




= Philanthropy Institutions & Miscellaneous Non-profits

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Aero Club of New England
Cabot Corporation Foundation
Cabot Family Charitable Trust
Ella Lyman Cabot Trust
The Garden Conservancy
Glass Flowers
Godfrey L. Cabot Solar Energy Conversion Research Project
Immigration Restriction League
Maria Moors Cabot Prize
Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paul & Virginia Cabot Charitable Trust
Porcellian Club
Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation
Watch and Ward Society




Buildings and historic sites


Cabot House (Harvard)
Cabot Farm
Eleanor Cabot Bradley Estate
Jeremiah Lee Mansion
John Cabot House
Les Quatre Vents
Lewis Cabot Estate
Mount Murray
Stonecrop Gardens




See also


List of United States political families
Thomas Dudley Cabot




References






External links


Media related to Cabot family at Wikimedia Commons

Papers, 1786–1945. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
The Cabot Family Archived 2019-04-08 at the Wayback Machine

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