JMA# 8.11.34
Cabot married first to Lilian Grosvenor on 28 July 1927 at Baddeck, Nova Scotia. He next married to Margaret Lapsley on 26 December 1949.
An expert in Japanese language and culture, Cabot spent nearly 27-years with the Foreign Service working on United States-Japanese relations and served as political advisor to General Douglas MacArthur, military governor of Japan after World War II, for two years.
Cabot graduated from Central High School (now known as Cardoza Education Campus) in Washington, District of Columbia, and attended Deep Springs College in Deep Springs, California. He received a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 1923 and entered the Foreign Service in 1926.
In 1929, he was assigned to Kobe, Japan as vice consul. In 1931, he held the same position at Dairen, Manchuria. He soon held the position of consul in Tokyo, Japan; and later in Harbin, Manchuria. From 1935 to 1938, he was second secretary at the Tokyo embassy. In 1939, he was in Washington, District of Columbia as the leading expert on Japan in the State Department’s Far Eastern division. In 1941, he was assigned to the office of the United States high commissioner of the Philippines. When the Japanese invaded; he, and the commissioner and the president of the Philippines, escaped by submarine from Corregidor to Australia.
Cabot next served briefly in Peru and Brazil. He then spent the rest of the war years preparing contingency plans in the event of an Allied victory in the Pacific. He was involved in the San Francisco Conference that led to the founding of the United Nations in 1945. His last post was as consul general at Halifax, Nova Scotia before he retired in 1953.
He was first president of the Japan-American Society of Washington; a member of the Friends Meeting of Washington; the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs; and the Diplo-matic and Consular Officers, Retired. He belonged to the Cosmos Club, the Chevy Chase Club, and the Metropolitan Club; the River Club in New York, and the Chester Yacht Club in Nova Scotia.
Cabot died of cancer at his Washington, D.C. home. He is credited for helping to forge a strong friendship between the United States and Japan after the war. At the time of his death, he was survived by his wife, three sons, one daughter, and six grandchildren.
Biography added by JMA#4262611 on 30 September 2014.
Sources-
-Spring 1987, The Historical Journal of the More Family
-John More Association 2010 Directory
Cabot married first to Lilian Grosvenor on 28 July 1927 at Baddeck, Nova Scotia. He next married to Margaret Lapsley on 26 December 1949.
An expert in Japanese language and culture, Cabot spent nearly 27-years with the Foreign Service working on United States-Japanese relations and served as political advisor to General Douglas MacArthur, military governor of Japan after World War II, for two years.
Cabot graduated from Central High School (now known as Cardoza Education Campus) in Washington, District of Columbia, and attended Deep Springs College in Deep Springs, California. He received a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 1923 and entered the Foreign Service in 1926.
In 1929, he was assigned to Kobe, Japan as vice consul. In 1931, he held the same position at Dairen, Manchuria. He soon held the position of consul in Tokyo, Japan; and later in Harbin, Manchuria. From 1935 to 1938, he was second secretary at the Tokyo embassy. In 1939, he was in Washington, District of Columbia as the leading expert on Japan in the State Department’s Far Eastern division. In 1941, he was assigned to the office of the United States high commissioner of the Philippines. When the Japanese invaded; he, and the commissioner and the president of the Philippines, escaped by submarine from Corregidor to Australia.
Cabot next served briefly in Peru and Brazil. He then spent the rest of the war years preparing contingency plans in the event of an Allied victory in the Pacific. He was involved in the San Francisco Conference that led to the founding of the United Nations in 1945. His last post was as consul general at Halifax, Nova Scotia before he retired in 1953.
He was first president of the Japan-American Society of Washington; a member of the Friends Meeting of Washington; the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs; and the Diplo-matic and Consular Officers, Retired. He belonged to the Cosmos Club, the Chevy Chase Club, and the Metropolitan Club; the River Club in New York, and the Chester Yacht Club in Nova Scotia.
Cabot died of cancer at his Washington, D.C. home. He is credited for helping to forge a strong friendship between the United States and Japan after the war. At the time of his death, he was survived by his wife, three sons, one daughter, and six grandchildren.
Biography added by JMA#4262611 on 30 September 2014.
Sources-
-Spring 1987, The Historical Journal of the More Family
-John More Association 2010 Directory
JMA# 8.11.34
Cabot married first to Lilian Grosvenor on 28 July 1927 at Baddeck, Nova Scotia. He next married to Margaret Lapsley on 26 December 1949.
An expert in Japanese language and culture, Cabot spent nearly 27-years with the Foreign Service working on United States-Japanese relations and served as political advisor to General Douglas MacArthur, military governor of Japan after World War II, for two years.
Cabot graduated from Central High School (now known as Cardoza Education Campus) in Washington, District of Columbia, and attended Deep Springs College in Deep Springs, California. He received a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 1923 and entered the Foreign Service in 1926.
In 1929, he was assigned to Kobe, Japan as vice consul. In 1931, he held the same position at Dairen, Manchuria. He soon held the position of consul in Tokyo, Japan; and later in Harbin, Manchuria. From 1935 to 1938, he was second secretary at the Tokyo embassy. In 1939, he was in Washington, District of Columbia as the leading expert on Japan in the State Department’s Far Eastern division. In 1941, he was assigned to the office of the United States high commissioner of the Philippines. When the Japanese invaded; he, and the commissioner and the president of the Philippines, escaped by submarine from Corregidor to Australia.
Cabot next served briefly in Peru and Brazil. He then spent the rest of the war years preparing contingency plans in the event of an Allied victory in the Pacific. He was involved in the San Francisco Conference that led to the founding of the United Nations in 1945. His last post was as consul general at Halifax, Nova Scotia before he retired in 1953.
He was first president of the Japan-American Society of Washington; a member of the Friends Meeting of Washington; the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs; and the Diplo-matic and Consular Officers, Retired. He belonged to the Cosmos Club, the Chevy Chase Club, and the Metropolitan Club; the River Club in New York, and the Chester Yacht Club in Nova Scotia.
Cabot died of cancer at his Washington, D.C. home. He is credited for helping to forge a strong friendship between the United States and Japan after the war. At the time of his death, he was survived by his wife, three sons, one daughter, and six grandchildren.
Biography added by JMA#4262611 on 30 September 2014.
Sources-
-Spring 1987, The Historical Journal of the More Family
-John More Association 2010 Directory
Cabot married first to Lilian Grosvenor on 28 July 1927 at Baddeck, Nova Scotia. He next married to Margaret Lapsley on 26 December 1949.
An expert in Japanese language and culture, Cabot spent nearly 27-years with the Foreign Service working on United States-Japanese relations and served as political advisor to General Douglas MacArthur, military governor of Japan after World War II, for two years.
Cabot graduated from Central High School (now known as Cardoza Education Campus) in Washington, District of Columbia, and attended Deep Springs College in Deep Springs, California. He received a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 1923 and entered the Foreign Service in 1926.
In 1929, he was assigned to Kobe, Japan as vice consul. In 1931, he held the same position at Dairen, Manchuria. He soon held the position of consul in Tokyo, Japan; and later in Harbin, Manchuria. From 1935 to 1938, he was second secretary at the Tokyo embassy. In 1939, he was in Washington, District of Columbia as the leading expert on Japan in the State Department’s Far Eastern division. In 1941, he was assigned to the office of the United States high commissioner of the Philippines. When the Japanese invaded; he, and the commissioner and the president of the Philippines, escaped by submarine from Corregidor to Australia.
Cabot next served briefly in Peru and Brazil. He then spent the rest of the war years preparing contingency plans in the event of an Allied victory in the Pacific. He was involved in the San Francisco Conference that led to the founding of the United Nations in 1945. His last post was as consul general at Halifax, Nova Scotia before he retired in 1953.
He was first president of the Japan-American Society of Washington; a member of the Friends Meeting of Washington; the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs; and the Diplo-matic and Consular Officers, Retired. He belonged to the Cosmos Club, the Chevy Chase Club, and the Metropolitan Club; the River Club in New York, and the Chester Yacht Club in Nova Scotia.
Cabot died of cancer at his Washington, D.C. home. He is credited for helping to forge a strong friendship between the United States and Japan after the war. At the time of his death, he was survived by his wife, three sons, one daughter, and six grandchildren.
Biography added by JMA#4262611 on 30 September 2014.
Sources-
-Spring 1987, The Historical Journal of the More Family
-John More Association 2010 Directory
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