Cabot Family - Notable Members

Notable Members

• John Cabot (b. 1680 in British Channel Isle of Jersey) - successful ship merchant
  • Francis Cabot (b. 1717 in Salem) - ship merchant
    • Susanna Cabot (b. 1754)
      • 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, DC) - 64th Governor of Connecticut
    • Samuel Cabot (b. 1758 in Salem) - successful ship merchant
      • Samuel Cabot Jr. (b. 1784 in Boston) - shipping businessman
        • Dr. 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
          • Dr. Arthur Tracy Cabot (b. 1852 in Boston) - progressive surgeon
          • Godfrey Lowell Cabot (b. 1861 in Boston) - founder of Cabot Corporation, philanthropist
            • 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
              • 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 administration
              • Lewis Cabot - Lewis Cabot Estate namesake
            • Eleanor Cabot - Eleanor Cabot Bradley Estate namesake
        • Edward Clarke Cabot (b. 1818) - architect and artist
        • Walter Channing Cabot (b. 1829)
          • Henry Bromfield Cabot (b. 1861 in Boston) - lawyer
            • Paul Codman Cabot (b. 1898 in Brookline), - cofounder of America's first mutual fund, "Harvard's Midas"
            • 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

Unverified:

• Francis Cabot (b. 1925) - noted gardener