Cabot family

Cabot
Ethnicity British
Current region United States
Information
Place of origin British Channel Isle of Jersey
Connected families Lowell
Lodge
Forbes
Estate Eleanor Cabot Bradley Estate
Lewis Cabot Estate

The Cabot family was part of the Boston Brahmin, also known as the "first families of Boston."

Contents

History

Family origin

The Boston Brahmin Cabot family descended from John Cabot (b. 1680 in British Channel Isle of Jersey), who immigrated from his birthplace to Salem, Massachusetts in 1700.[1] Though other individuals with the last name Cabot may descend from Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot, the Italian explorer who came from England in the 1400s), the prominent Boston Brahmin Cabot family descend from the former.[1][2][3][4]

Rise to prominence

John Cabot (b. 1680 in British Channel Isle of Jersey)[1] and his son, Joseph Cabot (b. 1720 in Salem),[5] became highly successful merchants, operating a fleet of privateers carrying opium,[3] rum, and slaves.[2] Shipping during the eighteenth century was the lifeblood of most of Boston’s first families, who usually got their start with the help of Colonel Thomas Perkins, "The King of Shipping." Joseph’s sons, Joseph Cabot Jr. (b. 1746 in Salem),[6] George Cabot (b. 1752 in Salem),[7] and Samuel Cabot (b. 1758),[8] left Harvard to work their way through shipping, furthering the family fortune[2] 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. The Cabot family eventually relocated from Salem to Boston.

George Cabot

From John Cabot's grandson, George Cabot's side, the family would go 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 (b. 1850 in Boston)[9] was also a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, who was reelected for the same senate seat as the incumbent 1916 U.S. Senate candidate against the Kennedy brothers' maternal grandfather, John F. Fitzgerald. George's great-great-great grandson, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (b. 1902 in Nanhunt)[10] was also a 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 John F. Kennedy-Lyndon B. Johnson. George's other great-great-great grandson, John Davis Lodge (b. 1903 in Washington, DC)[11] was the 64th Governor of Connecticut. George's great-great-great-great grandson, George Cabot Lodge II (b. 1927) was the 1962 U.S. Senate candidate from Massachusetts against Edward M. Kennedy.

Samuel Cabot

From John Cabot's grandson, Samuel Cabot's side, Samuel Cabot Jr. (b. 1784 in Boston)[12] furthered the family fortune by combining the first family staples of working in shipping and marrying money. In 1812,[12] he married Eliza Perkins, daughter of merchant king Colonel Thomas Perkins. Dr. Samuel Cabot III (b. 1815 in Boston)[13] was an eminent surgeon, who's son, Godfrey Lowell Cabot (b. 1861 in Boston)[14] founded Cabot Corporation,[15] the world's largest carbon black producer in the country, used for inks and paints. Godfrey's son, John Moors Cabot (b. 1901 in Cambridge),[16] 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[17] (b. 1898[18] in Brookline),[19] was cofounder of America's first mutual fund[19] and "Harvard's [Endowment] Midas."[20]

Boston Toast

The widely known[1][3][4][21][22] "Boston Toast" by Harvard alumnus John Collins Bossidy features the Cabot family:

"And this is good old Boston,
The home of the bean and the cod,
Where the Lowells talk only to Cabots,
And the Cabots talk only to God."[23]

Notable members

Unverified members:

See also

References

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