Lorillard Inc history

Frank Gray [B.] Griswold was born in New York, but spent much of his youth in Vienna and Dresden, where he graduated from the Handelschule in 1875, and in France and England, where he became a devotee of foxhunting. "A friend of Pierre Lorillard, Mr.

In North Carolina 1883, a man by the name of James Bonsack created a machine that could roll thousands upon thousands of cigarettes per day.

The first firm was P. & G. Lorillard, then P. Lorillard & Co. until 1891 they were incorporated as a stock company with a capital of $5,000,000 for the purpose of allowing the operatives to control stock to the amount of $2,000,000.

He spent "nearly all his life in the tobacco business," and retired as secretary of the P. Lorillard Company in 1898.

Directors of Lorillard Tobacco re-elected in 1901: Charles E. Halliwell, Thomas J. Maloney, C.C. Dula, Pierre Lorillard Jr., W.H. McAlister, William B. Rhett, and H.D. Kingsbury. (Financial Announcements.

15, 1902.) Lorillard director George D. Finlay was an executor of his estate.

After practicing in Lynchburg and Newport News, he joined the legal staff of the American Tobacco Company in New York in 1906, and was involved in the anti-trust litigation against it.

In 1911, the government issued a Dissolution Decree and antitrust investigation on ATC and the ATC was ordered the break up the company.

Debuting in 1914 Lorillards Magazine was an illustrated magazine featuring humor, stories and advertisements exclusively for Lorillard tobacco products.

Old Gold’s Puzzle Contest Crica 1920s.

Old Gold Cigarette Advertisement featuring the actor Charlie Chaplin from Circa 1928

Directors elected March 11, 1931: Benjamin L. Belt; David H. Hall, Earl J. Bush, William W. Drewry, J. Strother Freeman, George H. Hummel, James T. Keel, Everett Meyer, Alvin H. Shinkle, Harry A. Stout, L. Grayson Weymouth. (Minutes No.

Directors elected March 9, 1932: Benjamin L. Belt; David H. Hall, Earl J. Bush, William W. Drewry, John J. Driscoll, J. Strother Freeman, William S. Gray Jr., George H. Hummel, James T. Keel, Everett Meyer, Alvin H. Shinkle, Harry A. Stout, Jaquelin P. Taylor, L. Grayson Weymouth.

New York Times, May 12, 1935.) Edward Lowndes Rhett was with Time, Inc. (Her Betrothal to E.L. Rhett Announced.

New York Times, May 19, 1936.) He was a vice president of Continental Can and a director of Vincennes Packing Corp. when he was elected a director of Worthington Pump and Machinery Corp. (Business Notes.

New York Times, May 1, 1938.) Gilbert Livingston Beeckman was a Royal descendant of the Livingstons of Livingston Manor. (Distinguished Families in America, descended from Wilhelmus Beekman and Jan Thomasse Van Dyke.

27, 1942.) William Brisbane Rhett Jr. was with the Equitable Trust Co. (Rhett - Anderson.

New York Times, May 23, 1946; Dawley on Lord & Taylor Board.

New York Times, May 28, 1947; Lord & Taylor Elects Dawley President and Chief Executive.

New York Times, Sep. It was founded in 1948.

9, 1949.) Henderson continued as a director of the new Twentieth Century-Fox after it spun off National Theatres Inc. (20th Century-Fox Completes Split.

An advertisement heralding Lorillard’s 200th Anniversary in The New York Times from April 3, 1960.

Homer A. Tomlinson, the 1964 Theocratic Party candidate for president, who ran on a platform of eliminating tobacco and other pretended "sins," supported Stassen "because he is president of the American Baptist convention." (The Third Party: Mostly Extreme.

Grant was a partner of the law firm of Perkins, Daniels & McCormack, general counsel to the Company, or its predecessor firm before joining Lorillard in 1966.

Schreder was elected chief executive officer of the Distributors Group Inc. in 1968 and a director of its parent company, the USLIFE Holding Corporation. (Promotion Announced By a Unit of USLIFE. New York Times, Aug.

With further diversification and dilution in the later decades of the 20th century, the company—which had been renamed American Brands in 1969—took on a different identity, and by the end of the century it had become known as Fortune Brands, formally departing from the tobacco industry.

Program for a canceled conference on tobacco New York Botanical Garden June 14, 1981

In 1994 Andrew Tisch, Lorillard’s CEO, disagreed that nicotine and cigarette smoking would cause cancer.

↑ 1997, Proposed tobacco industry settlement,http://www.cnn.com/US/9705/tobacco/docs/proposal.html.

Despite the declining popularity of cigarettes, in 2010 Lorillard celebrated its 250th anniversary and stands as one of the longest continuously running companies in America today.

In April 2012, Lorillard bought the Blu electronic cigarette company for $135 million.