Background
Cabot, Godfrey Lowell was born on February 26, 1861 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Samuel and Hannah Lowell (Jackson) Cabot.
Cabot, Godfrey Lowell was born on February 26, 1861 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Samuel and Hannah Lowell (Jackson) Cabot.
Education public and private schools of Boston to 1877. Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1877-1878. Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude, Harvard, 1882.
Post-graduate work, Zurich Polytechnicum and University, Switzerland, 1883-1884, Harvard, 1891-1892.
Doctor of Laws, Norwich University, 1935, Harvard University, 1951. Doctor of Science, Northeastern University, 1941, Morris Harvey College, 1948.
Cabot born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a famous aviation pioneer and World War I United States. Navy pilot. He also founded the Aeronautical Club of New England.
Cabot founded Godfrey L. Cabot, Incorporated. and its successor, Cabot Corporation, in 1882.
lieutenant became an industrial empire which included carbon black plants and tens of thousands of acres of land rich in gas, oil, and other minerals. 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of pipeline.
Seven corporations with worldwide operations. Three facilities for converting natural gas into gasoline.
And a number of research laboratories.
By 1890, Cabot Corporation, had become America"s fourth largest producer of carbon black, which was used in products, such as inks, shoe polishes, and paints. But with the subsequent advent and popularity of cars, carbon black became in much greater demand as six pounds of it was required in the production of a single tire, and Cabot"s incomes soared. Philanthropic work
Cabot was also a significant benefactor of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, primarily in solar research, resulting in important discoveries in photochemistry, thermal electricity, and in the construction of experimental solar houses.
He also established the Godfrey L. Cabot Award for the advancement of aviation, Harvard"s Maria Moors Cabot Foundation for Botanical Research, the annual Maria Moors Cabot prize awarded by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, as well as an endowed professorship at the institution.
In 1973, Harvard"s Godfrey Lowell Cabot Science Library was named in his honor. Cabot also devoted his resources to the controversial activist organization known as the New England Society for the Suppression of Vice in Boston.
Before Cabot"s involvement, the society had made its mark by helping instigate obscenity charges against Walt Whitman"s Leaves of Grass. Under Cabot"s direction the organization renamed Watch and Ward Society used economic, social, and legal pressures and even harassment techniques to block the sale and distribution of books which they disapproved of for moral reasons.
Among the writers to which they objected were Conrad Aiken, Sherwood Anderson, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Sinclair Lewis, Bertrand Russell, Upton Sinclair, and H. G. Wells.
Cabot was associated with Calvin Coolidge from Coolidge"s Boston days.
Member Pan-American Union. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Aeronautic Association (ex-president Member), Society Chemical Industry, Federation Aeronautique Internationale (honorary president).
Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences.
Life; member corporation Northeastern U. Clubs: Harvard, Union Press (Boston).
Married Maria B. Moors, June 23, 1890. Children: James Jackson, Eleanor, Thomas Dudley, William Putnam, John Moors.