Biography: Edward Clarke Cabot was born in Boston in 1818. He was an architect and artist who is best known for his design of the Boston Athenaeum. He was the first president of the Boston Society of Architects and later formed the partnership of Cabot & Chandler which built numerous homes in and around Boston. Cabot died in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1901.

Biography: Cabot, Everett, and Mead was a Boston-based architecture firm founded by Edward Clark Cabot, Arthur Greene Everett, and Samuel W. Mead. The firm was previously known as Cabot & Chandler but Francis Ward Chandler left the firm for a position as the head of the MIT School of Architecture in 1888 and the firm was subsequently renamed. The firm was renamed Everett and Mead in 1901 after the death of Cabot.

Biography: Francis Ward Chandler was born in Boston in 1844 and later studied at Harvard until the Civil War. After the war he studied architecture through apprenticeship at the firm of Ware and Van Brunt in Boston. In 1875 he joined Edward Clarke Cabot to found the firm Cabot and Chandler.