Godfrey Lowell Cabot

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Godfrey Lowell Cabot (born February 26, 1861 in Boston , † November 2, 1962 ) was an American entrepreneur.

Life

His parents were Hannah Lowell Jackson and Samuel Cabot III , a doctor. Mother Lowell's family are of the Brahmins of Boston . Godfrey Lowell Cabot founded Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc. in 1882, which in 1890 had the fourth highest carbon black production capacity in the United States.

The Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc. held extensive land ownership partly with oil and gas reserves and other mineral resources, a pipeline of 1600 km in length. The global company had seven branches with three natural gas refineries and its own research and development department.

In the 1930s he sponsored solar research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . This was used to research photovoltaics , thermoelectricity and solar houses. He supported the Maria Moors Cabot Foundation for Botanical Research with USD 615,773 , praised the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for Journalism , which is awarded annually by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism , and endowed professorships.

The Godfrey Lowell Cabot Science Library at the Science Center at Harvard University was named after him. Godfrey Lowell Cabot graduated in 1882. He became a member of the Watch and Ward Society and directed it in the 1920s and 1930s. Society shaped the cultural life in Boston.

The Boston Toast

His belief in his predestination , which in the Watch and Ward Society became the program of a fundamentalist society, is explained by the song "The Boston Toast" by John Collins Bossidy:

original translation
"And this is good old Boston,
the home of the bean and the cod,
where the Lowells talk to the Cabots,
and the Cabots talk only to God. "
"And that's good old Boston
the home of the bean and the cod,
where lowells talk to cabots,
and only the Cabots speak to God. "

membership

In 1941 Cabot was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Webster Bull, My Father, My Brother: A History of Godfrey L. Cabot Inc. , 1986
  2. ^ John A. Garraty: Only to God: The Extraordinary Life of Godfrey Lowell Cabot , 1967.
  3. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1900-1949 ( PDF ). Retrieved September 27, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Lowell Cabot, Godfrey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH November 2nd, 1962
Place of death Boston , Massachusetts