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Louis W. Cabot at whoi.edu or Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution:
https://www.whoi.edu/who-we-are/about-us/people/obituary/louis-w-cabot/
“The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of WHOI Life Trustee Louis W. Cabot on January 29 at his home in the Tenants Harbor village of St. George, Maine. He was 99.
Though born into a storied Boston Brahmin family, Louis W. Cabot measured accomplishments by more than a financial yardstick.
Mr. Cabot was the former president and chairman of Cabot Corp., the specialty chemicals and materials company founded by his grandfather.
During his executive years with his family’s business, Cabot Corp.’s annual sales increased from $27 million to $1.4 billion, according to his family, and as president, he took the business public.
He also formerly was chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and had been on the boards of companies including Arthur D. Little, Wang Laboratories, New England Telephone and Telegraph, Owens-Corning Fiberglas, and Penn Central Railroad.
The year he retired from his family’s business, Mr. Cabot began chairing the Brookings Institution’s board of trustees. In a September 1986 Globe interview, he said that among his goals was increasing donations to the think tank.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabot_family
https://www.whoi.edu/who-we-are/about-us/people/obituary/louis-w-cabot/
“The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of WHOI Life Trustee Louis W. Cabot on January 29 at his home in the Tenants Harbor village of St. George, Maine. He was 99.
Though born into a storied Boston Brahmin family, Louis W. Cabot measured accomplishments by more than a financial yardstick.
Mr. Cabot was the former president and chairman of Cabot Corp., the specialty chemicals and materials company founded by his grandfather.
During his executive years with his family’s business, Cabot Corp.’s annual sales increased from $27 million to $1.4 billion, according to his family, and as president, he took the business public.
He also formerly was chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and had been on the boards of companies including Arthur D. Little, Wang Laboratories, New England Telephone and Telegraph, Owens-Corning Fiberglas, and Penn Central Railroad.
The year he retired from his family’s business, Mr. Cabot began chairing the Brookings Institution’s board of trustees. In a September 1986 Globe interview, he said that among his goals was increasing donations to the think tank.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabot_family
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