Louis Lasher Lorillard

Louis Lasher Lorillard (November 26, 1849 – October 22, 1910) was a prominent American clubman.

Personal life

Louis was born on November 26, 1849 in New York City.[1] He was the son of Pierre Lorillard III (1796–1867) and Catherine (née Griswold) Lorillard. Among his large family were siblings, Pierre Lorillard IV;[2][3] Catherine Lorillard,[4] wife of James Powell Kernochan;[5][6] Jacob Lorillard;[7] Mary Lorillard,[8] wife of Henry Isaac Barbey;[9][10] George Lyndes Lorillard,[11][12][13] and Eva Lorillard,[14] wife of Lawrence Kip.[15]

His paternal grandparents were Pierre Lorillard II and Maria Dorothea (née Schultz) Lorillard. In 1760, his great-grandfather founded P. Lorillard and Company in New York City to process tobacco, cigars, and snuff which, today, is the oldest tobacco company in the U.S. His mother's 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."[16]

Career
Lorillard's Vinland Estate in Newport.

Upon his father's death in 1867, eighteen year old Louis, and his siblings, inherited a large fortune and was "regarded as one of the wealthiest young men in New York."[17] Like his brothers, he was an "ardent sportsman, and his fancies in this direction seemed to turn especially to yachting. His first yacht, the Eva" was named after his younger sister. He later owned The Wanderer, a larger and faster yacht that was the "most up-to-date type of keel ocean-going schooner."[17]

He was a member of the New York Yacht Club, the Knickerbocker Club, and the Newport Reading Club.[17]

In 1896, Lorillard sold his Vinland Estate at Ochre Point in Newport, Rhode Island to Hamilton McKown Twombly and his wife, Florence Adele Vanderbilt Twombly. He had inherited Vinland, which was built in 1882 by Peabody & Stearns, from his aunt, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe.[18]

Personal life

In 1874, Lorillard was married to Katherine Livingston Beeckman (1855–1941), sister of Rhode Island Governor Robert Livingston Beeckman.[19][20] Together, they were the parents of four sons and a daughter:[21]

  • Louis Lasher Lorillard Jr. (1875–1938),[22] who married Edith Norman Hunter in 1914.[23][24]
  • Mary Lorillard (1875–1878), who died young.
  • George L. Lorillard, who lived in Paris, France.
  • Beeckman Lorillard (1884–1923), who married Katherine Doyle.[25]
  • Harold Livingston Lorillard (1888–1889), who died in infancy.

Lorillard died at the Mercedes Hotel in Paris on October 22, 1910.[17] He was buried at Saint Marys Episcopal Churchyard in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. In his will, his wife received one-fifth of the income from the estate he inherited from his father, but only one-tenth if she remarried, with the remainder of the estate split between his living sons.[26]

References
  1. Greene, Richard Henry; Stiles, Henry Reed; Dwight, Melatiah Everett; Morrison, George Austin; Mott, Hopper Striker; Totten, John Reynolds; Pitman, Harold Minot; Ditmas, Charles Andrew; Forest, Louis Effingham De; Mann, Conklin; Maynard, Arthur S. (1954). The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. p. 235. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  2. "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.
  3. "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.
  4. "Mrs. Catherine Lorillard Kernochan". The New York Times. February 27, 1917. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  5. "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.
  6. Pell, Eve (2009). We Used to Own the Bronx: Memoirs of a Former Debutante. SUNY Press. p. 14. ISBN 9781438424972. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  7. "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.
  8. "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.
  9. "Henry Isaac Barbey (1833–1906)". nyhistory.org. New-York Historical Society. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  10. "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.
  11. "GEORGE LORILLARD'S DEATH.; HIS CAREER AS A YACHTSMAN AND ON THE TURF". The New York Times. February 5, 1886. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  12. "DEATH LIST OF A DAY. | Countess de Agreda". The New York Times. July 3, 1899. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  13. "WHAT IS DOING IN SOCIETY". The New York Times. September 8, 1899. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  14. "DEATH LIST OF A DAY. | Mrs. Eva Lorillard Kip". The New York Times. February 24, 1903. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  15. "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.
  16. Hutto, Richard Jay (2005). The Jekyll Island Club Members. Indigo Custom Publishing. p. 100. ISBN 9780977091225. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  17. "LOUIS L. LORILLARD DEAD; Son of Late Pierre Lorillard and Prominent Yachtsman, Dies In Paris" (PDF). The New York Times. 23 October 1910. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  18. "PURCHASED BY THE TWOMBLYS; Louis L. Lorillard's Estate of Vinland, in Newport, Disposed Of to Advantage Yesterday" (PDF). The New York Times. 28 January 1896. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  19. "Mrs. Louis L. Lorillard Ill". The New York Times. February 26, 1921. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  20. "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.
  21. Morton, John Fass (2008). Backstory in Blue: Ellington at Newport '56. Rutgers University Press. p. 273. ISBN 9780813542829. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  22. "LOUIS S. LORILLARD IS DEAD IN POMFRET; Yachtsman Was Owner of Man Winning Craft--Yale Graduate" (PDF). The New York Times. 1 May 1938. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  23. "EDITH HUNTER TO BE MRS. L. L. LORILLARD; Her Engagement to Son of the Late Louis L. Lorillard Announced in Newport. BRIDE-TO-BE IS 19 TODAY Her Fiance Is with His Mother in Switzerland, but They Will Return Soon for Wedding" (PDF). The New York Times. 12 October 1914. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  24. "LOUIS L. LORILLARD WEDS MISS HUNTER; Only Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. R. Hunter a Bride at Belair, Newport. UNDER A FLORAL CANOPY Moonstone Bracelets and Gold Key Chains the Gifts to Bridesmaids and Ushers ;- The Guests" (PDF). The New York Times. 6 December 1914. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  25. "Beeckman Lorlllard" (PDF). The New York Times. 22 February 1923. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  26. "Louis L. Lorillard's Will Probated" (PDF). The New York Times. 18 November 1910. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
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