Samuel Cabot Jr.

Samuel Cabot Jr.
Born	(1784-12-21)December 21, 1784 Boston, Massachusetts
Died	September 2, 1863(1863-09-02) (aged 78)
Occupation	Merchant
Years active	1806-1838
Spouse	Eliza Perkins
Children	Thomas Handasyd Cabot Samuel Cabot III Edward Clarke Cabot James Elliot Cabot Stephen Cabot Walter Channing Cabot Louis Cabot
Parent(s)	Samuel Cabot Sally Barrett Cabot
Relatives	See Cabot family

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 Barrett) Cabot (1763–1809)[1] and Samuel Cabot (1759–1819), a successful ship merchant.[2] Among his many siblings were Mary Clarke Cabot, Eliza Lee (née Cabot) Follen (wife of Charles Follen),[3] Joseph Cabot, Sarah (née Cabot) Parkman, Susan Copley Cabot, Richard Clarke Cabot, Edward Cabot, and Mary Ann (née Cabot) Cabot.[4]

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.[5][6]

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.[7]

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),[8] a daughter of Thomas Handasyd Perkins.[9] Together, they lived in Brookline, Massachusetts and were the parents of seven sons, including:[10][11]

• 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.[12]
• Edward Clarke Cabot (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.[13]
• Stephen Cabot (1826–1906)
• Walter Channing Cabot (1829–1904), who married Elizabeth Rogers Mason in 1860.[14][15]
• 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.[16]

Cabot died on September 11, 1863.[17]

References

1. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. New England Historic Genealogical Society. 1888. p. 264. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
2. Museum, Cincinnati Art; Aronson, Julie; Wieseman, Marjorie E.; Amnéus, Cynthia; Art, Columbia Museum of (2006). Perfect Likeness: European and American Portrait Miniatures from the Cincinnati Art Museum. Yale University Press. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-300-11580-2. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
3. James, Edward T.; James, Janet Wilson; Boyer, Paul S.; College, Radcliffe (1971). Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. Harvard University Press. p. 638. ISBN 978-0-674-62734-5. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
4. Farrell, Betty (1993). Elite Families: Class and Power in Nineteenth-Century Boston. SUNY Press. p. 170. ISBN 978-0-7914-1594-8. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
5. Kienholz, M. (2008). Opium Traders and Their Worlds-Volume One: A Revisionist Exposé of the World's Greatest Opium Traders. iUniverse. p. 275. ISBN 978-0-595-91078-6. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
6. Hazard, Samuel (1841). Hazard's United States Commercial and Statistical Register. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
7. "Cabot, Samuel". Merchant Biographies. Adam Matthew Digital. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
8. "Elizabeth Perkins Cabot". www.bostonathenaeum.org. Boston Athenæum. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
9. Cott, Nancy F. (1997). The Bonds of Womanhood: "woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835. Yale University Press. p. 208. ISBN 0300072988. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
10. Premo, Terri L. (1990). Winter Friends: Women Growing Old in the New Republic, 1785-1835. University of Illinois Press. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-252-01656-1. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
11. Briggs, L. Vernon (1927). History and Genealogy of the Cabot Family: 1475- 1927. Privately Published. pp. 463, 676. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
12. "JSTOR: Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 21 (May, 1885 - May, 1886), pp. 517-520: REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, RESIDENT FOLLOWS": 517–520. JSTOR 25129836
13. Zboray, Ronald J.; Zboray, Mary Saracino (2006). Everyday Ideas: Socioliterary Experience Among Antebellum New Englanders. Univ. of Tennessee Press. p. 362. ISBN 978-1-57233-471-7. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
14. "Cabot, Elizabeth Rogers Mason, 1834-1920. Diaries, 1859-1906: A Finding Aid". Harvard University Library. July 1985. Retrieved August 13, 2011.
15. "Collection: Diaries of Elizabeth Rogers Mason Cabot, 1859-1906 | HOLLIS for". hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
16. Social Register, Boston. Social Register Association. 1911. p. 30. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
17. Thwing, Annie H. (1907). The Hon. Jonathan Jackson and Hannah (Tracy) Jackson, Their Ancestors and Descendants. T.R. Marvin & Son, printers. p. 66. Retrieved 27 October 2017.

External links

• Samuel Cabot Papers, 1713-1858 at the Massachusetts Historical Society
• Samuel Cabot at Find a Grave
• Samuel and Joseph Cabot ledger at Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School.