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James Elliot Cabot

Also Known As: "Elliot"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
Death: January 16, 1903 (81)
Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Burial: 96 Grove Street, Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, 02467, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Samuel Cabot, Jr. and Eliza Cabot
Husband of Elizabeth Cabot
Father of Francis Elliot Cabot; Edward Twisleton Cabot; Thomas Handasyd Cabot; Charles Mills Cabot; Dr. Richard Clark Cabot, II and 2 others
Brother of Thomas Handasyd Cabot; Dr. Samuel Cabot III; Lt. Colonel Edward Clarke Cabot, (USA); Elizabeth Perkins Lee; Cabot and 4 others

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About James Elliot Cabot

James Elliot Cabot

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59686021/james_elliot_cabot

Cabot was an American philosopher and author, born in Boston to Samuel Cabot, Jr., and Eliza Cabot. James (known by his family and friends as "Elliot") had six brothers: Thomas Handasyd Cabot (b. 1814), Samuel Cabot III (b. 1815), Edward Clarke Cabot (b. 1818), Stephen Cabot (b. 1826), Walter Channing Cabot (b. 1829), and Louis Cabot (b. 1837). Having received his bachelor's degree from Harvard Law School in 1845, Elliot started a law firm.

He taught philosophy at Harvard and was a transcendentalist and edited the Massachusetts Quarterly Review, beginning in 1848. Cabot argued that we do not experience space directly, that space is "a system of relations, it cannot be given in any one sensation. [...] Space is a symbol of the general relatedness of objects constructed by thought from data which lie below consciousness." Cabot was of the opinion that the position of something in space was not felt at all, but deduced from perceived relations.

Cabot was a correspondent of Henry David Thoreau. His biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson was criticized for its lack of colour. Cabot and his wife Elizabeth had five sons, the most notable of them being Richard Clarke Cabot (1868–1939), a physician who advanced clinical hematology, was an innovator in teaching methods, and a pioneer in social work.

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James Elliot Cabot's Timeline

1821
June 18, 1821
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
1859
February 5, 1859
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
1861
September 13, 1861
Brookline, Norfolk County, MA, United States
1864
January 12, 1864
Brookline, Norfolk County, MA, United States
1866
April 12, 1866
Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States
1868
May 21, 1868
Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States
1872
August 11, 1872
Beverly Farms, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
August 11, 1872
Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States
1903
January 16, 1903
Age 81
Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States