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...LIFE AS AN EXPLORER???Doubleday, Page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: An Armful of Flags | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

Whence these Cabots, and many others, derived their patronymic is uncertain. There was John Cabot (1450-1498), explorer???but he was more properly Giovanni Cabote, an Italian. There was George Cabot, President of the Hartford Convention in 1814-1815. But a Boston Who's Who of 1851 says that his family originated in Beverly, Mass., and was formerly called Corbett. This source might make James J. Corbett (whilom champion pugilist) kin to the Cabots of Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Aug. 27, 1923 | 8/27/1923 | See Source »

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