Elizabeth Rogers Mason Cabot

Elizabeth Rogers Mason Cabot (May 25, 1834 – December 12, 1920) was an American diarist and philanthropist. Cabot was born in Boston on May 25, 1834 to a prominent Boston family. Her parents were William Powell Mason, a prominent lawyer, and Hannah Rogers Mason, a descendent of Harvard president John Rogers and of Thomas Dudley, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Growing up, Cabot lived in Boston and spent her summers in Walpole, New Hampshire. She married Walter Channing Cabot, son of Samuel Cabot Jr., in 1860; the couple had five children and lived in Brookline and Manchester, Massachusetts. Cabot died December 12, 1920 at her home in Brookline, Massachusetts. Philanthropy Cabot was involved in running the Home for Aged Colored Women in Boston, as well as the Children's Aid Society and the Woman's Education Association.