Pierre Lorillard II
| Pierre Lorillard II | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 7, 1764 Province of New York |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. New York, United States |
| Resting place | New York Marble Cemetery[1] |
| Known for | Tobacco manufacturer |
| Spouse(s) | Maria Dorothea Schultz[1] |
| Children | Maria Dorothea (b. 1790) Catherine (b. 1792) Pierre III (b. 1796) Dorothea Anne (b. 1798) Eleanor Eliza (b. 1801) |
| Parent(s) | Pierre Abraham Lorillard Catherine Moor |
| Relatives | Pierre Lorillard IV, grandson |
Pierre Lorillard II (September 7, 1764 – May 23, 1843), also known as Pierre (Peter) Lorillard Jr., was an American tobacco manufacturer, industrialist, banker, businessman, and real estate tycoon.[2][3]
Life and career
Lorillard was born in New York,[3] the son of Pierre Abraham Lorillard and Catherine Moore.[3] He married Maria Dorothea Schultz in 1788 and they had five children.[3] They lived at 521 Broadway in Manhattan.[3]
Lorillard's father, also known as 'Pierre Lorillard I', was the founder of the Lorillard Tobacco Company.[4] Lorillard's father made the first American tobacco fortune by developing a tobacco firm that he started in 1760.[4] Originally the business was a snuff-grinding factory located in a rented house in lower Manhattan. It was called Lorillard's Snuff and Tobacco company and sometimes the name was abbreviated as J. Lorillard.[4] Later the firm moved to a better location on the Bronx River. Lorillard II took over and continued to manage and operate the family business after his father's death in 1776.[3]
Social clubs
Lorillard II was a member of several social clubs including the Meadow Brook Hunt Country Club (a fox hunting club) and the Narragansett Gun Club.[5] He often is associated with Tuxedo Park since between 1802 and 1812 he purchased the first tracts of land upon which it later would be developed.[6] The village and the surrounding area were developed in 1886 by his grandson Pierre Lorillard IV as a resort for the socially prominent.
Death
In May 1843 at the age of 79 Lorillard died, outliving his brothers George and Jacob.[7] A newspaper reporter writing his obituary tried to describe an extremely wealthy American and used the relatively new word, "millionaire".[8][9][10][11]
While the word "millionaire" had been in use in the United Kingdom since at least 1816,[12] apparently it was used for the first time in the United States in 1843 when it was used to describe Lorillard, although he was not the first American to own one million dollars' worth of property.[13][14] While he was one of the wealthiest men in America, he was not the richest at the time, that being John Jacob Astor.[15] Lorillard just happened to have been the first to be called a millionaire in newspapers.[16][17][18][19] Cleveland Amory incorrectly reports that it was in Lorillard's 1843 obituary that the first use of the word "millionaire" appeared in print anywhere.[20][21]
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He was a tobacconist, and his memory will be preserved in the annals of New York by the celebrity of "Lorillard's Snuff and Tobacco." He led people by the nose for the best part of the century, and made his enormous fortune by giving them that to chew which they could not swallow.[8][19]
References
- Notes
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- ↑ Myers, p. 196, Thus, when Pierre Lorillard, a New York snuff maker, banker, and landholder, died in 1843, his fortune of $1,000,000 or so, was considered so unusual that the word "millionaire", newly-coined, was initialized in the rounds of the press.
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- ↑ Whitney, p. 318
- ↑ Dictionary of American Biography, American Council of Learned Societies 1933, p. 412
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- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Larrabee, p. 239
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- ↑ Wein, p. 134 According to Cleveland Amory, it was within Pieere Lorillard's newspaper obituary that the word "millionaire" had first appeared in print.
- ↑ Wecter, p. 76 Peter Lorillard, the snuff and cigar-maker, died in 1843 and the newspapers coined the word "millionaire" to denote such affluence.
- Bibliography
- Baltzell, Edward Digby, Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class, Transaction Publishers 1989, ISBN 0-88738-789-6
- Hall, Henry et al., The Tribune Book of Open-air Sports, The Tribune Association 1887, Original from the New York Public Library
- Larrabee, Eric et al., Mass Leisure, Free Press 1958
- Myers, Gustavus, History of the Great American Fortunes, C.H. Kerr & Company 1909.
- Wecter, Dixon, The Saga of American Society: A Record of Social Aspiration, 1607-1937, C. Scribner's Sons 1937, Original from the University of Michigan
- Wein, George et al.,Myself Among Others: A Life in Music, Da Capo Press 2004, ISBN 0-306-81352-1
- Whitney, Caspar et al., Outing; Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction, W. B. Holland 1902, Original from the University of Michigan
