Pierre Lorillard III (1796-1867) was the grandson of Pierre Lorillard II, the founder of the P. Lorillard and Company. Pierre also developed Tuxedo Park, one of the nation's early Country Clubs [1] [2]
His son, Pierre Lorillard IV would take over the company.
On a rainy day in September, 71 years later, Pierre Lorillard III got off a train and looked over his land. It was all his, by virtue of inheritance, purchase, and out-guessing his relatives at poker. Seven months from that fall day, he had built in the Ramapo hills 30 miles of roads, a sewage and water system, a park gatehouse "like a frontispiece to an English novel," 22 cottages, two blocks of stores, stables, a dam, an icehouse, clubhouse, swimming pool.
((cite news)): Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
In 1886 one of the more unusual country clubs was founded near New York City, the vision of a single man, Pierre Lorillard III. Heir to a great tobacco fortune, Lorillard owned no less than six hundred thousand acres of undeveloped land in New York's Orange and Rockland counties, across the Hudson River and about an hour's train ride from the city. At first Lorillard envisioned only a hunting and fishing lodge for himself and his friends, but this soon grew in his mind into a large clubhouse, cottages, and sports facilities surrounding a body of water long known locally as Tuxedo Lake.
((cite news)): Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)