Pierre Abraham Lorillard

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.

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. 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".

The naturalization recorded in New York on April 21, 1762, of 'Peter Louillard', a stocking weaver and French Protestant, is probably that of Lorillard. This followed the naturalization on October 27, 1760, of John George Lorillard, described as a French Protestant yeoman of New York City.

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.

Source: Wikipedia

~• Fonda l'usine de cigarettes et cigares la Loews Corp's Lorillard Tobacco qui fit sa fortune (cinquième cigarettier des États-Unis). Il finança des expéditions et des fouilles au Mexique dans la ville maya du Yaxchilan