Francis Cabot Lowell

Francis Cabot Lowell may refer to:

  • Francis Cabot Lowell (businessman) (1775–1817), businessman and co-founder of Lowell, Massachusetts
  • Francis Cabot Lowell (judge) (1855–1911), State Politician and Federal Judge

Famous quotes containing the words francis, cabot and/or lowell:

    “There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love—every man works his oar voluntarily!”
    —St. Francis De Sales (1567–1622)

    “That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Only man thinning out his kind
    sounds through the Sabbath noon, the blind
    swipe of the pruner and his knife
    busy about the tree of life . . .”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)