- Founder Cabot Corporation
- American Centenarian
- WWI Naval Aviator and aviation pioneer
Biography
Godfrey Lowell Cabot was born 26 February 1861 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States to Samuel Cabot (1815-1885) and Hannah Lowell Jackson (1820-1879) and died 2 November 1962 Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States of unspecified causes. He married Maria Buckminster Moors (1866-1934) 23 June 1890 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
Godfrey Lowell Cabot was an American industrialist and philanthropist, who founded the Cabot Corporation.
Godfrey Lowell Cabot was born in Boston, Massachusetts and attended Boston Latin School. His father was Dr. Samuel Cabot III, an eminent surgeon, and his mother was Hannah Lowell Jackson Cabot. He had seven siblings: three being, Lilla Cabot (b. 1848), among the first American impressionist artists, Samuel Cabot IV (b. 1850), chemist and founder of Cabot Stains, and Dr. Arthur Tracy Cabot (b. 1852), a progressive surgeon.
Cabot attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a year, before graduating from Harvard College with a S.B. in Chemistry,[5] in 1882. He was a famous aviation pioneer and World War I U.S. Navy pilot. He also founded the Aero Club of New England.
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| James Jackson Cabot (1891-1930) | 24 September 1891 Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States | 24 July 1930 Cohasset, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States | Catharine Rees Rush (1894-1976) |
| Eleanor Cabot (1893-1990) | |||
| Thomas Dudley Cabot (1897-1995) | 1 May 1897 Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States | 8 June 1995 Weston, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States | Virginia Wellington (1899-1997) |
| William Putnam Cabot (1900-1991) | |||
| John Moors Cabot (1901-1981) | 11 December 1901 Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States | 24 February 1981 Washington, District of Columbia, United States | Elizabeth Lewis (1906-1992) |
Siblings
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Lydia Jackson Cabot (1848-1933) | 13 January 1848 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States | 28 February 1933 Hancock, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States | Thomas Sergeant Perry (1845-1928) |
| Samuel Cabot (1850-1906) | 18 February 1850 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States | 26 November 1906 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States | Helen Augusta Nichols (1856-1917) |
| Arthur Tracy Cabot (1852-1912) | |||
| James Jackson Cabot (1854-1875) | |||
| Helen Jackson Cabot (1856-1938) | |||
| Guy Chilton Cabot (1859-1927) | |||
| Godfrey Lowell Cabot (1861-1962) | 26 February 1861 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States | 2 November 1962 Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States | Maria Buckminster Moors (1866-1934) |
References
- Godfrey Cabot - disambiguation
- Cabot in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
- Cabot Family of Boston - Boston Brahmin
Residences
Footnotes (including sources)
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