Lowell (Francis Cabot) is born in Newburyport.

The son of Judge John and Susan (Cabot) Lowell, Francis Cabot Lowell graduates from Harvard College, serves as a ship supercargo, and returns to Boston to become a successful merchant and real estate speculator, with an office at 60 Long Wharf. He tours textile mills of England and Scotland in 1811, during which, according to Nina Sankovitch, “He smiled charmingly and let the British think him a tourist only; a sweet American bowled over by British brilliance.” Returning to Boston, he reconstructs the designs to build his own machinery beginning 1812,* and opens his own mill in 1813,* sparking the Industrial Revolution in the U.S. Lowell goes on to join with family members and friends to form the largest textile company in the U.S. at the time. He dies in Boston on August 10, 1817, and is buried in the Central Burying Ground on Boston Common.