Godfrey Lowell Cabot

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

Life

His parents were Samuel and Hannah Lowell Jackson Cabot, a physician. The mother of the Lowell family belongs to the Brahmins of Boston. Godfrey Lowell Cabot founded in 1882, the Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc. which in 1890 had the fourth highest production capacity for carbon black in the United States.

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

In the 1930s he promoted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology solar research. This research has been conducted on the photovoltaic, solar thermal electricity and houses. With $ 615,773 he promoted Maria Moors Cabot Foundation for Botanical Research, praised the annually awarded by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Maria Moors Cabot prize for 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 was a member of the Watch and Ward Society and guided them in the 1920 and 1930 years. The company dominated the cultural life of Boston.

The Boston toast

His belief in his predestination, which was declared the song "The Boston Toast " by John Collins Bossidy in the Watch and Ward Society for a fundamentalist social program: