Researching James Cabot
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 226 people with the Cabot surname? In that year Cabot was ranked number 3353 for popularity in the UK. |
The name James means "one who supplants" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of James Cabot on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for James Cabot and the Cabot Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 100 people with the Cabot surname in the UK? Cabot is now ranked number 3948 for popularity in the UK. |
Cabot Family History Databases
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| Did you know that there are currently 3038 people with the Cabot surname in the USA? Cabot is ranked number 156 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called James Cabot
James Elliot Cabot
James Elliot Cabot (June 18, 1821 – January 16, 1903) 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.
Source: James Elliot Cabot, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Cabot
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