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  Pierre Lorillard IV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lorillard is reported to be the person who introduced the English dinner jacket to the United States in 1886 at one of his formal parties held at the resort on Tuxedo Lake.
Although Pierre Lorillard's horse "Parole" finished fourth in the 1876 Kentucky Derby, it went on to race with considerable success both in the United States and in Europe.
Pierre Lorillard died in 1901 and was interred in the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
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 Pierre Lorillard IV - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Pierre Lorillard IV Pierre Lorillard IV (October 13, 1833 – July 7, 1901) was an American tobacco manufacturer and thoroughbred race horse owner.
In 1760, his great-grandfather, and namesake, founded P. Lorillard and Company in New York City to process tobacco, cigars, and snuff.
Pierre Lorillard IV, 1833 births, 1901 deaths, American entrepreneurs, American racehorse owners and breeders, Legion of Honor recipients and People from New York.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Pierre_Lorillard_IV   (519 words)

  
 Bib 'N Tux - Tuxedo Rentals and Sales for Tampa, FL
Pierre Lorillard IV, of New York, invented the tuxedo for an informal occasion.
Lorillard hired a tailor to custom-make the coats, but on the night of the Tuxedo Park Autumn Ball, Lorillard did not go through with his plan to wear the new coat.
Pierre Lorillard's daring innovation has now become the standard and socially accepted attire at weddings, high school proms, and many other gala events.
www.bibntux.com /tuxHistory.html   (337 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Emily Lorillard and others
     Emily Lorillard is the daughter of Pierre Lorillard IV and Emily Taylor.
     Pierre Lorillard V is the son of Pierre Lorillard IV and Emily Taylor.
     Lorillard Tailer is the son of Tommy Suffern Tailer and Maude Louise Lorillard.
www.thepeerage.com /p15304.htm   (448 words)

  
 Pierre Beregovoy Encyclopedia Articles @ ChannelsAndNetworks.com (Channels and Networks)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, et de la Verendrye
Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial, marquis de Vaudreuil
Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil de Cavagnial, Marquis de Vaudreuil
www.channelsandnetworks.com /encyclopedia/Special:Allpages/Pierre_Beregovoy   (227 words)

  
 AmericanHeritage.com / TUXEDO PARK
Pierre Lorillard IV, whose iron whim brought about the transformation of a forbidding wilderness into an elegant playpen for adults, was a New York tobacco magnate and sportsman.
The reign of the Lorillard dynasty over Tuxedo Park, though diminished in energy and power, was faithfully carried on by his son and grandson, Pierre V and Pierre VI.
Pierre VI, who in 1940 succeeded his father, Pierre V, as the head of the tottering Lorillard dynasty, was the most reckless of them.
www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1978/5/1978_5_69.shtml   (4303 words)

  
 NJWedding.com - Articles & Tips - History Of The Tuxedo
Invented by Pierre Lorillard IV of New York for a specific, rather informal occasion, the tuxedo became an essential item of formalwear, in the US and abroad.
The Lorillards were tobacco magnates, and moved in the highest social circles.
For that town's Autumn Ball of 1886, Pierre Lorillard IV, the heir to the family fortune, decided to wear something less formal than the fl tie and tails that had become the standard of men's formalwear in the early 1800s in Britain.
www.njwedding.com /articles/tuxedohistory_bgenuardi.cfm   (312 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Edith Kip and others
     Louis Lasher Lorillard is the son of Pierre Lorillard III and Catherine Griswold.
     Pierre Lorillard VI is the son of Pierre Lorillard V and Caroline Hamilton.
     Griswold Lorillard is the son of Pierre Lorillard V and Caroline Hamilton.
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 Tuxedo Club - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Tuxedo Club is a private member-owned country club located on West Lake Road in Tuxedo Park, New York in the Ramapo Mountains.
Founded in 1886 by Pierre Lorillard IV, its facilities now include an 18-hole golf course, lawn tennis, court tennis, racquets, squash, platform tennis, swimming, and boating.
The tuxedo was introduced at the club's first Autumn ball.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tuxedo_Club   (395 words)

  
 News-Record.com Staff Blogs: Architecture, Artifacts & Antiquity: That's not smoke from Pierre Lorillard's cigarette. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Pierre Lorillard IV and his son, Pierre Lorillard V, were among dozens of northern industrialists starting in the late 19th century and continuing to the Great Depression who found Guilford a happy hunting ground.
Lorillard IV, who died in 1901, came to Guilford first, probably in the 1890s, not too long after he made his greatest innovation - and it wasn't a new brand of cigarettes.
Although Lorillard was bought by American Tobacco Co. in 1910 and then became independent again a few years later, at least one Lorillard remained active with the company when it opened its Greensboro plant at East Market and English streets.
blog.news-record.com /staff/architecture/archives/2005/11/long_before_lor.html   (975 words)

  
 Lorillard
Pierre Lorillard married Emily Taylor with whom he had four children...
That company, Lorillard, is turning to the courts to stop an advertising campaign that stretches the truth, in...
Lorillard Federal Credit Union at www.lfcun.com is a member-owned non-profit financial institution, providing members with a full range of competitive products and services while ensuring financial integrity.
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 KinderTux - Infant Formal Wear   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Tuxedo was created by Pierre Lorillard IV of New York City.
Pierre Lorillard's family were wealthy tobacco magnates who owned country property in Tuxedo Park, just outside of New York City.
At the first Autumn ball, held at the Tuxedo Club in October 1886, the young Lorillard wore a new style of formal wear for men that he designed himself.
www.kindertux.com   (162 words)

  
 Mamoru's Expense Account part 3
And in histories of the area dated 1857 and 1875, the name is corrupted to Duck Cedar with the explanation that the region is overgrown with cedar trees and is a favorite haunt of wild ducks.
The Lorillard family began acquiring land in the Tuxedo area in 1800’s and by 1852, had come into possession of most of what had been known as the Cheescock Patent.
With a labor force largely imported from Italy by Pierre Lorillard, they constructed a series of homes within the walled park in a matter of several months that stand today as a testament to the skill of the artesans.
www.sailormoon.ws /archives/072003.html   (4017 words)

  
 Towne & Country Properties Sotheby's International Realty
It is an enclave of mansions and beautifully designed homes by the best known architects of the day, clustered around three sparkling lakes beneath the lovely Ramapo Mountains.
Bruce Price, a famous turn of the century architect, under the direction of Pierre Lorillard, and with a crew of 1,800 immigrant laborers, in eight months time yielded 30 miles of roads bordered by possibly some of the most spectacularly beautiful stone walls to be seen today.
Lorillard encouraged Price to exploit the rough materials found in the area and to subordinate the design of the residences in the natural beauty of the environment.
www.towneandcountryinc.com /history.asp   (531 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Editorial Reviews Books: Contrary to Popular Belief: More Than 250 False Facts Revealed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In the summer of 1886, Pierre Lorillard IV, living in Tuxedo Park, a small hamlet in Westchester County, New York, did not want to wear formal fl tie and tails to the annual Autumn Ball at his country club.
Lorillard may have been inspired by Edward VII, who during a visit to India as Prince of Wales had ordered the tails cut off his coat to keep cool in the heat.
Ultimately, Lorillard did not wear the new dinner jacket to the ball, but his son, Griswold, and some of Griswold's friends, did--starting a trend.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/0767919920/reviews   (1744 words)

  
 Death and Fishing In Tuxedo Park
Lorillard built the little community in the Ramapo Hills forty miles northwest of Manhattan as a summer retreat for the cream of New York society in 1885.
Lorillard's agents rounded up eighteen hundred immigrants, housed them in shanties outside the Park's walls and gave them jobs for about ten cents an hour.
Those with capital indulged in their pleasures and in so doing provided gainful employment for those who had heard the call of the Stature of Liberty, completed the same year that Lorillard opened the gates of Tuxedo to the wealthy.
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 Invisible Heroes - Hero
You are Pierre Lorillard IV, heir to a vast tobacco fortune.
As a Lorillard, you move in the highest social circles and are considered to be a pillar of New York's Fifth Avenue society, even though you live 40 miles north of Manhattan.
As you stroll the sidewalks of New York City this fine autumn day, you look toward the harbor and see a mountain of unsightly crates that are said to hold a gigantic statue of a woman holding a torch and wearing a crown.
www.invisibleheroes.com /hero.asp?issue=124   (559 words)

  
 IV Oral History
I’ve gotten different answers, but I always heard there were 48 bedrooms in the hotel.
One of the things that I’ve always been told is that the Villa always had electricity and always had running water.
I’ve always been fascinated by the lake, the reefs and learning to know it and how to get around on it.
www.ptvermont.org /iv_oral_history.htm   (4020 words)

  
 Tie Backs -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Black tie is today worn at a wide variety of functions, and the corresponding female attire can range from a short cocktail dress to a long gown, depending on fashion, local custom and the hour at which the function takes place.
The original single- breasted model was simply a tailcoat without a tail, worn with a white piqué vest as would be worn with a tailcoat, then later with a fl vest ensuite with the jacket and trousers.
At the 1886 Tuxedo Park Autumn Ball, Pierre Lorillard's young son Griswold Lorillard and his friends startled guests, all in white tie and tailcoats, by wearing the new English dinner jackets, with scarlet evening vests.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/148/tie-backs.html   (1229 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Lorillards had a place in extremely ritzy Tuxedo Park, New York, which is about 40 miles north of NYC.
In 1886, Pierre was stressing about his clothes for the annual Autumn Ball--he was tired of the traditional fl-tie-and-tails thing; he wanted to do something new.
Sadly, though, PL IV was kind of a wimp, and he chickened out: He didn't end up wearing his jacket to the Autumn Ball.
www.brainevent.com /be/WackyWeek/twwih/20030929/show_article_then_toc   (760 words)

  
 White Tuxedos
-Wetman 01:21, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC) :I've made the page a redirect to Black tie based on the 'what links here' page, which was link after link intending to point to the formal wear.
The town was developed by tobacco tycoon Pierre Lorillard IV as a resort for socially prominent people.
The formal attire, known as the tuxedo, was named after the town and it principal community.
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 Untitled Document
Pierre Lorillard IV, heir to a tobacco fortune and the biggest landowner in town, asked his tailor to create four new formal fl jackets modeled after the tailless red wool coats worn by English for hunters.
Lorillard declined to wear the result, but his son Griswold Lorillard and three of his friends did along with waistcoats of scarlet satin, and the look caught on.
and Lorillard responding on wearing it that it was a Tuxedo.
www.leasingnews.org /American_History/oct_10.htm   (1251 words)

  
 Citizen Arcane : Reference
I've seen various explanations — such as how the sound is similar to that of a child in distress or the cry of a macacque monkey which preyed on our primate ancestors — but none of them were particularly convincing.
His older brother, Pierre Lorillard, Jr., was one of the governors of the Tuxedo Club.
In the summer of 1886, the year Pierre Lorillard founded Tuxedo Park, James Brown Potter, one of its first residents, and Cora Potter, his beautiful wife from the South, went to England and met the Prince of Wales - later Edward VII - at a court ball.
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 Chapter Excerpt: The Sky's the Limit by Steven Gaines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The banker and patron of the arts Otto Kahn, one of the most admired Jewish men of his time, built the last private house on Fifth Avenue in 1918; and to be different, he sheathed his 13,000-square-foot mansion in limestone imported from France.
Taubman has left intact the commandment chiseled across the facade of the old Hebrew Congregations’ building, “Love thy neighbor as thyself,” which is pretty much what his neighbors at 834 did after he was incarcerated in a federal penitentiary for seven months for price-fixing between his company and the auction house Christie’s.
Pierre Lorillard, the son of the tobacco billionaire, and Eberhard Faber, the man whose name is on the millions of pencils his company manufactures, both lived in the building until their death at age eighty-seven.
www.twbookmark.com /books/57/0316608513/chapter_excerpt20648.html   (8278 words)

  
 Neck tie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The simplicity of the uniform of Brummell was adopted by each one of many men of operation its friend, the prince runs, a king last George IV.
The reputation that holds of the pajarita of the fl date to 1886, when Pierre Lorillard V invented the smoking like alternative to tailcoats used with the white pajaritas.
The jacket of new supper obtained its name of the resource of the park of the smoking, New York, in where first it was used.
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 Drink Specials
The Tuxedo Club was the first "planned exercise in gracious living" in America.
In the fall of 1885, Pierre Lorillard IV, of the tobacco Lorillards, took a piece of spare real estate about 35 miles out the Erie Railroad from Jersey City known as "the Wood Pile"—it supplied wood to the railroad—and there did his pleasure-dome decree.
Nine months later, it was ready: a huge clubhouse, miles of new roads banked by fieldstone walls, a train station, sewers and other services, and a raft of cottages available by the season to the well-heeled (subject to approval by the club); there was even some discrete housing for the peons.
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 Mens Fashion Tuxedos and Dinner jackets
One cold October night in 1886 a formal party at the Lorillard homestead was to set the world of fashion alight and determine a style of formal dress for men that has survived to this day.
The inventor was Pierre Lorillard IV, a rich young buck with time on his hands and obviously some design flair.
Attired in a tailless fl jacket he wowed the guests and soon suave, fashionable urbanites were falling over themselves to get the latest look.
www.toffsworld.com /fashion_designers/tuxedo.htm   (649 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Elizabeth Baring and others
     Pierre Lorillard IV was born on 13 October 1833 in Westchester County, New York, U.S.A. He was the son of Pierre Lorillard III and Catherine Griswold.
He was head of the family tobacco business, P. Lorillard.
She was the daughter of Cecil Baring, 3rd Baron Revelstoke of Membland and Maude Louise Lorillard.
www.thepeerage.com /p14959.htm   (1474 words)

  
 Invisible Heroes - Archives
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