Dr. Godfrey Lowell Cabot

Godfrey Lowell Cabot
Godfrey Cabot (left) presenting a trophy to Secretary of the Navy
Born	February 26, 1861 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	November 2, 1962 (age 101) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Education	Harvard University (S.B. Chemistry, 1882)
Occupation	Businessman, philanthropist
Spouse(s)	Maria Moors Cabot (m. 1890)
Children	James Jackson Cabot (b. 1891) Thomas Dudley Cabot (b. 1897) John Moors Cabot (b. 1901) Eleanor Cabot
Parent(s)	Dr. Samuel Cabot III Hannah Lowell Jackson Cabot

Godfrey Lowell Cabot (February 26, 1861 – November 2, 1962) was an American industrialist and philanthropist, who founded the Cabot Corporation.

Godfrey Lowell Cabot was born in Boston, Massachusetts and attended Boston Latin School. His father was Dr. Samuel Cabot III, an eminent surgeon, and his mother was Hannah Lowell Jackson Cabot. He had seven siblings: three being, Lilla Cabot (b. 1848), among the first American impressionist artists, Samuel Cabot IV (b. 1850), chemist and founder of Cabot Stains, and Dr. Arthur Tracy Cabot (b. 1852), a progressive surgeon.

Cabot attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a year, before graduating from Harvard College with a S.B. in Chemistry, in 1882. He was a famous aviation pioneer and World War I U.S. Navy pilot. He also founded the Aero Club of New England.

Cabot founded Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc. and its successor, Cabot Corporation, in 1882. It 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.