Cabot family

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The Cabot family is an American family based in Boston and Massachusetts whose members have been prominent in the fields of politics, shipping, finance, academics, medicine, and philosophy. They are considered a Boston Brahmin family, one of the "first families of Boston," and their name caps the famous and often-quoted Boston toast by John Collins Bossidy: The Cabot family in the United States began with the 1700 emigration of John Cabot from the isle of Jersey to Salem, Massachusetts, where he established a successful shipping firm, which remained the core of the family business for many generations. Descendants of John Cabot and his son, Joseph, include at least three United States Senators, two governors of Massachusetts, three ambassadors of the United States, and one governor of Connecticut, and the wife of future United States president Theodore Roosevelt. Companies or institutions founded by his direct descendants include the Lowell mills, the Groton School, the Porcellian Club...

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