Evening star., 1943-04-19
Col. Pierre LoriI|ard, ,
Last Of Family, Dies
Al Tuxedo Park
Sportsman, 81 Was on
Gen. Pershine's Stoff
During World War
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TUXEDO PARK, N. Y, April 10
Col. Pierre Lorillard, 81, whose
grandfather established the P. Loril-
lard Tobacco Co., died here yester-
day at Tuxedo Memorial Hospital
after two-month illness.
Col. Lorilard was major at
tached to Gen. Pershing's staff
during World War I.
Devoting much of his life to the
Army, he was a specialist in the
improvement of the breed of all
types of Army horses. He was grad
uated from Harvard University in
1904.
Col. Lorillard was the last sur
vivor of the Lorillard family. His
father, a capitalist, died August s.,
1910.
Col Lorillard, a bachelor, who
spurned the luxury of the Lorillard
mansions, lived in almost monastic
simplicity in an apartment over the
Tuxedo Racquets and Tennis Club
in the residential colony founded in
1886 by his grandfather.
He was never engaged in the to-
bacco industry. Control of the P.
Lorillard Co. passed out of the fam
lly's hands long before the death of
his father, Pierre Lorillard, sr.
Col. Lorillard was founder and
former president of the National
Horse Show Association and served
IN official capacities at the Tuxedo
Horse Show, the West Point Horse
Show, and with the Monroe Driving
Park Association and the Junior
League of Amateur Driving Clubs.
Rode Many Winners.
He bred many prize winning
jumpers and rode winners in the
show ring and over the jumps. He
also had driven trotters against such
veterans as Ed Geers in the Grand
Circuit. He was several times a
winner of the Tuxedo Club tennis
championship and played racquets
and court tennis.
The famous stock farm, Rancocas
Stables. at Jobstown, N. j., where
his grandfather developed Iroquois,
who in 1881 became the first Amer
ican horse to win the EPSON Derby,
passed to the control of Harry Sin
clair after the founders death in
1901, and Col. Lorillard never raced
horses under the Lorillard colors of
cherry and black.
French Hupuenof Sfnck
The Lorillards were tobacconists
of French Huguenot stock who
brought their business to the
United States from France, where
it had been founded in 176O. The
first Pierre Lorillard established a
small snuff manufacturing shop at
Peck Slip in New York City.
From this grew the P. Lorillard
Co. which reached its greatest period
OF expansion under family control
when Col. Lorillards grandfather
was its president The tract of 1000
acres in Orange County, which had
belonged to the Lorillard family
since 1872. was developed first as a
game preserve by Col. Lorillards
grandfather and later turned into
the exclusive Tuxedo Park residen-
tial colony.
Two years ago Col. Lorillard an
nounced a policy of opening the
community to families of moderate
incomes, declaring that what Tuxedo
Park needed was more red blood
and less blue blood"
Col. Lorillard obtained his pre-
paratory schooling at the Fay and
st. Marks Schools in Southboro
Mass. After leaving Harvard he
went on trip around the world with
August Belmont jr. and on his re-
turn became associated with the
Lorillard enterprises, including the
management of Tuxedo Park.