Louis Lasher Lorillard
Louis Lasher Lorillard was a prominent American clubman.
Personal life
Louis was born on November 26, 1849, in New York City. He was the son of Pierre Lorillard III and Catherine Lorillard. Among his large family were siblings, Pierre Lorillard IV; Catherine Lorillard, wife of James Powell Kernochan; Jacob Lorillard; Mary Lorillard, wife of Henry Isaac Barbey; George Lyndes Lorillard, and Eva Lorillard, wife of Lawrence Kip.His paternal grandparents were Pierre Lorillard II and Maria Dorothea 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."
Career
Image:McAuley Hall, Salve Regina University, Newport RI.jpg|thumb|right|250px|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." 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."
He was a member of the New York Yacht Club, the Knickerbocker Club, Newport Reading Club and The Travellers Club in Paris. In 1906 he became a member of the New York Society of the Cincinnati by right of his descent from Colonel John Lasher. He was succeeded in the Society by his son Louis.
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.
Personal life
In 1874, Lorillard was married to Katherine Livingston Beeckman, sister of Rhode Island Governor Robert Livingston Beeckman. Together, they were the parents of four sons and a daughter:- Louis Lasher Lorillard Jr., who married Edith Norman Hunter in 1914.
- * Louis Livingston Lorillard who while married to Elaine Lorillard cofounded the Newport Jazz Festival with her and George Wein.
- Mary Lorillard, who died young.
- George L. Lorillard, who lived in Paris, France.
- Beeckman Lorillard, who married Katherine Doyle.
- Harold Livingston Lorillard, who died in infancy.