Pierre Lorillard III

Pierre Lorillard III
Born	(1796-10-20)October 20, 1796
Died	December 23, 1867(1867-12-23) (aged 71) Saratoga, New York, U.S.
Known for	Tuxedo Park, New York
Spouse	Catherine Anne Griswold ​ ​ (died 1856)​
Children	7, including Pierre, George
Parent(s)	Pierre Lorillard II Maria Dorothea Schultz
Relatives	Pierre Abraham Lorillard (grandfather) Catharine Lorillard Wolfe (niece)

Pierre Lorillard III (October 20, 1796 – October 6, 1867) was the grandson of Pierre Abraham Lorillard, the founder of P. Lorillard and Company. Heir to a great tobacco fortune, Lorillard owned no less than 600,000 acres (2,400 km^2) of undeveloped land in New York's Orange and Rockland counties, across the Hudson River and about an hour's train ride from the city. His son Pierre Lorillard IV developed Tuxedo Park on the family property in the 1880s.

Early life

Pierre Lorillard III (born on October 20, 1796) was the son of Pierre Lorillard II (1764–1843) and Maria Dorothea Schultz (1770–1834).[1] His father, a prominent tobacco manufacturer, industrialist, banker, businessman, and real estate tycoon, was one of the wealthiest Americans of his day and the first person described in American newspapers as a "millionaire," though not America's first millionaire.[2] His grandfather, Pierre Abraham Lorillard (1742–1776), was the founder of the P. Lorillard and Company, which provided the family fortune.[3]

Through his sister Dorothea Anne Lorillard (1798–1866), who married John David Wolfe (1792–1872), a real estate developer,[4] Lorillard III was the uncle of philanthropist Catharine Lorillard Wolfe (1828–1887).[4] Another sister, Eleanora Eliza Lorillard (1801–1843), was married to William Augustus Spencer (1792–1854), son of Ambrose Spencer and brother of John Canfield Spencer.[5][6]

Career

In 1866, Lorillard built the Italianate commercial building at 827 Broadway in New York City.[7]

Personal life

Lorillard was married to Catherine Anne Griswold (1809–1856). Her family owned "the great New York mercantile house of N. L. & G. Griswold, known to their rivals as "No Loss and Great Gain Griswold," importers of rum, sugar, and tea."[2] Together they were the parents of:[8]

• Pierre Lorillard IV (1833–1901),[9][10] who married Emily Taylor (1841–1925),[11] and owned the yacht Vesta.[12]
• Catherine Lorillard (1835–1917),[13] who married James Powell Kernochan (1831–1897)[14][15]
• Jacob Lorillard (1839–1916),[16] who married Frances Augusta Uhlhorn (1843–1896), daughter of C.F. Uhlhorn, Esq., in 1861.[17] After her death, he married Gertrude Verplanck Uhlhorn (b. 1847), former wife of Wentworth Huyshe (1847–1934), an artist,[18] and daughter of William C. Uhlhorn,[19] in 1897.[20]
• Mary Lorillard (1841–1926),[21] who married Henry Isaac Barbey (1832–1906).[22][23]
• George Lyndes Lorillard (1843–1886),[24] who married Marie Louise La Farge (1845–1899), the former wife of Edward Whyte, whom she divorced. She was the sister of John La Farge,[25] and later became Countess de Agreda after she married the Spanish-Mexican Count de Agreda.[26] After his death in 1886, she married Leopold Morse (son of Leopold Morse), who changed his name to Leopold Morse de Agreda.[27][28]
• Louis Lasher Lorillard (1849–1910), who married Katherine Livingston Beeckman (1855–1941),[29] sister of Governor Robert Livingston Beeckman.[30]
• Eva Lorillard (1847–1903),[31] who married Lawrence Kip (1836–1899),[32] son of William Ingraham Kip (1811–1893)

Lorillard died on October 6, 1867, in Saratoga, Florida.[33]

Descendants

Through his daughter Mary, he was the grandfather of Hélène Barbey (1868–1945) who married Hermann Alexander, Graf von Pourtalès (1847–1904), who both competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics, with Hélène becoming the first woman to win a gold medal.[34]

References

1. Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York (1905). Genealogical Record. The Society. p. 103. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
2. Hutto, Richard Jay (2005). The Jekyll Island Club Members. Indigo Custom Publishing. p. 100. ISBN 9780977091225. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
3. Shrager, Mark (April 1, 2016). The Great Sweepstakes of 1877: A True Story of Southern Grit, Gilded Age Tycoons, and a Race That Galvanized the Nation. Guilford, Connecticut: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 265. ISBN 9781493018895. Retrieved September 14, 2016.
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9. "PIERRE LORILLARD, SR., IN CRITICAL CONDITION; Removed from the Deutschland to a Hotel in an Ambulance. Was Taken III in England and Was Confined to His Cabin Throughout the Voyage". The New York Times. July 5, 1901. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
10. "PIERRE LORILLARD DEAD; Famous in Society, in Commerce, and in the World of Sport. First American to Win the English Derby – Other Triumphs on the Turf in Both Hemispheres". The New York Times. July 8, 1901. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
11. "MRS. PIERRE LORILLARD DIES IN MONROE HOME; Widow of. Tobacco Capitalist and Sportsman to Be Buried From Grace Church Chantry". The New York Times. September 12, 1925. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
12. "Arrival of the Yacht Vesta". The New York Times. May 30, 1867. Retrieved September 14, 2016.
13. "Mrs. Catherine Lorillard Kernochan". The New York Times. February 27, 1917. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
14. "JAMES P. KERNOCHAN DEAD; Well-Known Clubman Expires from the Effects of Being Knocked Down on Monday. CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT. Archibald Pell Says He Knew Tuesday that Miss Baker, the Banker's Daughter, Drove the Wagon Which Ran Against His Father-in-Law". The New York Times. March 6, 1897. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
15. Pell, Eve (2009). We Used to Own the Bronx: Memoirs of a Former Debutante. SUNY Press. p. 14. ISBN 9781438424972. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
16. "JACOB LORILLARD DEAD.; Founder of Tuxedo Park Dies in London, His Home for 15 Year". The New York Times. April 29, 1916. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
17. "MARRIED. | LORILLARD – UHLHORN". The New York Times. June 4, 1861. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
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19. Hoffman, Eugene Augustus (1899). Genealogy of the Hoffman family : descendants of Martin Hoffman, with biographical notes . New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
20. "Lorillard – Huyshe". The New York Times. December 22, 1897. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
21. "MRS. M. LORILLARD BARBEY; Sister of Tuxedo Park's Founder Dies in Her Paris Residence". The New York Times. April 11, 1926. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
22. "Henry Isaac Barbey (1833–1906)". nyhistory.org. New-York Historical Society. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
23. "HENRY I. BARBEY DIES ABROAD; New Yorker's Death Occurred Near Geneva, Where He Was Educated". The New York Times. July 10, 1906. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
24. "GEORGE LORILLARD'S DEATH.; HIS CAREER AS A YACHTSMAN AND ON THE TURF". The New York Times. February 5, 1886. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
25. P. de La Barre de Nanteuil (January 2022). "Généalogie de la famille Binsse de Saint Victor". Calaméo (in French). p. 26. Retrieved June 8, 2022.
26. "MRS. LORILLARD'S MARRIAGE". The New York Times. February 13, 1889. Retrieved June 8, 2022.
27. "DEATH LIST OF A DAY. | Countess de Agreda". The New York Times. July 3, 1899. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
28. "WHAT IS DOING IN SOCIETY". The New York Times. September 8, 1899. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
29. "MRS. LORILLARD, 86, OF NEWPORT, DEAD; Sister of Ex-Gov. Beeckman of Rhode Island Had Suffered a Stroke Thursday". The New York Times. July 21, 1941. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
30. "Mrs. Louis L. Lorillard Ill". The New York Times. February 26, 1921. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
31. "DEATH LIST OF A DAY. | Mrs. Eva Lorillard Kip". The New York Times. February 24, 1903. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
32. "COL. LAWRENCE KIP DEAD; His Wife and Daughter with Him at the End. CONSCIOUS UP TO THE LAST Prominent in the Social Life of New York as a Sportsman – His Military Career". The New York Times. November 18, 1899. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
33. "Obituary. Peter Lorillard". New York Herald. October 8, 1867. p. 4. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
34. "Hélène de Pourtalès Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympic Sports. Archived from the original on February 21, 2014. Retrieved February 8, 2014.

External links

• Painting of his daughter, Mary Lorrillard Barbey by Wilhelm Heinrich Funk, 1904.
• Pierre Lorillard III at Find a Grave