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Pierre Abraham Lorillard (17421776) was a tobacconist of New York City. He founded the business which developed into the Lorillard Tobacco Company, which claims to be the oldest tobacco firm in the United States and in the world.〔〔Ackerman, Ruthie. ("Loews Lets Lorillard Go" ), ''Forbes'', December 17, 2007. Accessed July 21, 2001. Accessed July 21, 2008. "Lorillard claims to be the oldest American tobacco company, with a history stretching back to 1760."〕 His name is also sometimes given as Peter Abraham Lorillard,〔Ross, Harold, ("American Snuff" (abstract) ), from 'The Talk of the Town', in ''The New Yorker'' dated September 22, 1934, p. 18〕 Peter Lorillard and Pierre Lorillard I. ==Life== The son of Jean Lorillard (born 1707) and his wife Anne Catherine Rossel, Lorillard set out in business in about 1760 with a snuff-grinding factory in a rented house on Chatham Street, now Park Row, in Lower Manhattan.〔(BELMONT PLAYGROUND ), New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, accessed July 21, 2008.〕〔(Lorillard and Tobacco 200th Anniversary P. Lorillard Company 1760-1960 ) at tobaccodocuments.org: "In 1885, the Lorillards brought a suit in the U. S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illinois for infringement of their 'Defiance Plug' Lorillard tin tags, used on plug tobacco, deposing that 'They are now, and for many years have been extensively engaged in the production and sale of manufactured tobacco; that their business was established upward of a century ago, to wit, about the year 1760, in the city of New York, and that from said date until the present time the business so established has been successfully carried on without interruption or substantial change, and is now a source of great profit."〕 He was the first man to make snuff in North America.〔 According to Maxwell Fox's ''The Lorillard Story'' (1947), Lorillard adopted the trademark of a native American smoking a pipe, standing beside a hogshead of tobacco, which "later became the best known trademark in the world".〔Fox, Maxwell, ''(The Lorillard Story )'' (1947), online at tobaccodocuments.org, accessed 21 July 2008〕 The naturalization recorded in New York on April 21, 1762, of 'Peter Louillard', a stocking weaver and French Protestant, is probably that of Lorillard.〔Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt, ''Denizations and Naturalizations in the British Colonies in America, 1607-1775'' (Genealogical Publishing Company, 2005, ISBN 0-8063-1754-X) p. 186: ''Louillard Peter. He was naturalized in New York 21 April 1762. He was a stocking weaver from New York City and a French Protestant. (was probably Peter Lorillard )''〕 This followed the naturalization on October 27, 1760, of John George Lorillard, described as a French Protestant yeoman of New York City.〔Bockstruck, ''op. cit.'', (p. 186 ) at books.google.com, accessed 29 January 2009〕 Lorillard died in 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, killed by Hessian mercenaries of the British during the British occupation of New York City,〔 but after his death his business was carried on by his descendants and grew into the Lorillard Tobacco Company. In 1960, the company issued a 'Bicentennial Report' in which it was able to boast proudly that "P. Lorillard Company is older than the United States, taking its origin in the Colonial days of 1760 when British kings ruled the land... Lorillard is the oldest tobacco company in the world".〔 Lorillard had five brothers, Jean George, George David, Charles Christophe, Jean Abraham, and Leopold Frederick, and a sister, Anne Marguerite. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pierre Abraham Lorillard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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