Background
She was born into a prominent Unitarian family in Boston and was the fourth of seven children.
She was born into a prominent Unitarian family in Boston and was the fourth of seven children.
Cabot was educated in Boston private schools and attended Radcliffe College as a special student from 1889 to 1891 and took graduate courses at Harvard College from 1897 to 1903.
Her parents, Ella (Lowell) Lyman and Arthur Theodore Lyman, owned a family estate in Waltham, Massachusetts. In 1897, Cabot began her career as an educator of ethics and applied psychology. She taught at Boston private schools and at Pine Manor Junior College in Wellesley, Massachusetts as well as directed Sunday school at King"s Chapel.
Cabot served on the governing boards of Radcliffe College from 1902 to 1934, and on the Massachusetts Board of from 1905 to 1934.
Among the numerous other organizations in which she held office were the Women"s Association of Massachusetts, the Unitarian Sunday School Association, the Unitarian Temperance Society, and the National Religious Association.