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The Lorillard hogshead in 1789 featuring a Native American smoking Lorillard Snuff Mill, built 1840, photo 1936. The company was founded by Pierre Abraham Lorillard in 1760. In 1899, the American Tobacco Company organized a New Jersey corporation called the Continental Tobacco Company, which took a controlling interest in many small tobacco companies. [4]
Pierre Abraham Lorillard (1742 – 1776) was a French-American tobacconist who founded the business which developed into the Lorillard Tobacco Company, which claimed to be the oldest tobacco firm in the United States and in the world. [1] [2] His name is also sometimes given as Peter Abraham Lorillard, [3] Peter Lorillard and Pierre Lorillard I.
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The Lorillard firm was founded by Pierre Abraham Lorillard in 1760. His two sons, Peter and George, took over after he was killed during the American Revolutionary War, and they moved the manufacturing portion of the business to this location in the Bronx in 1792. [3] Peter Lorillard III built a forty-five room mansion, stone cottage and ...
He served as president of Bulova from 1979 to 1989; [12] and in 1990, he was named chairman and chief executive officer of Lorillard Tobacco Company where he served until 1995. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Testifying under oath before the US Congress in 1994, Tisch said, "I believe that nicotine is not addictive," and when asked whether he knew that ...
Lorillard's father, Pierre Abraham Lorillard (also known as 'Pierre Lorillard I'), was the founder of the Lorillard Tobacco Company. [2] Lorillard's father made the first American tobacco fortune by developing a tobacco firm that he started in 1760. [2] Originally the business was a snuff-grinding factory located in a rented house in lower ...
He was born in Westchester, New York, the son of Pierre Lorillard III (1796-1867) and Catherine Griswold. In 1760, his great-grandfather founded P. Lorillard and Company in New York City to process tobacco, cigars, and snuff. Lorillard Tobacco Company remains the oldest tobacco company in the United States to this day.
In 1911 the American Tobacco Company was found to be in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act and was split into competing companies American Tobacco, R.J. Reynolds, Lorillard, and others. [5] Lorillard ended up buying the warehouse complex in Madison, and its name was long painted across the end of the 1901 building. [4]