Samuel Cabot Jr. (December 21, 1784 – September 2, 1863) was an American businessman in the
early-nineteenth-century China Trade, a member of the wealthy and prominent
Cabot family.
Early life
Cabot was born in
Boston, Massachusetts on December 21, 1784 into the
Cabot family. He was the eldest son of Sarah "Sally" (
née
A birth name is the name of a person given upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name, or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth re ...
Barrett) Cabot (1763–1809) and Samuel Cabot (1759–1819), a successful ship merchant.
Among his many siblings were Mary Clarke Cabot,
Eliza Lee (née Cabot) Follen (wife of
Charles Follen),
Joseph Cabot, Sarah (née Cabot) Parkman, Susan Copley Cabot, Richard Clarke Cabot, Edward Cabot, and Mary Ann (née Cabot) Cabot.
Career
In 1806, after a couple of years familiarizing himself with the East Indies trade, he set up business in
Philadelphia, in partnership with Samuel Hazard.
After marrying Eliza, Samuel then went into business with his brother Joseph and with John W. Perit, taking charge of the Philadelphia-based partnership's Boston office.
He entered the
China Trade in 1817, in yet another family partnership, with his Perkins in-laws. He retired from business in 1838, one of the richest merchants in New England.
Personal life
In 1808 he returned to Boston and married Elizabeth "Eliza" Perkins (1791–1885),
a daughter of
Thomas Handasyd Perkins.
Together, they lived in
Brookline, Massachusetts
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and were the parents of seven sons, including:
* Thomas Handasyd Cabot (1814–1835), who caught
smallpox and died in China.
*
Samuel Cabot III (1815–1885), a surgeon and ornithologist who married Hannah Lowell Jackson.
*
Edward Clarke Cabot
Edward Clarke Cabot (August 17, 1818 – January 5, 1901) was an American architect and artist.
Life and career
Edward Clarke Cabot was born April 17, 1818, in Boston, Massachusetts to Samuel Cabot Jr. and Eliza (Perkins) Cabot. He was the ...
(1818–1901), an architect and artist who married Martha Eunice Robinson Cabot in 1842. After her death in 1871, he married Louisa Sewall in 1873.
*
James Elliot Cabot (1821–1903), who became a philosopher and author who married Elizabeth Dwight in 1857.
* Stephen Cabot (1826–1906)
* Walter Channing Cabot (1829–1904), who married Elizabeth Rogers Mason in 1860.
* Louis Cabot (1837–1914), who trained as an architect under his older brother before becoming a soldier in the Civil War and marrying Amy Hemenway.
Cabot died on September 11, 1863.
References
External links
Samuel Cabot Papers, 1713-1858at the
Massachusetts Historical Society
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*
Samuel and Joseph Cabot ledgerat Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School.
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1784 births
1863 deaths
Cabot family
19th-century American businesspeople