Ambrose Lanfear Norrie (July 27, 1857 – December 22, 1910)[1] was an American businessman and social leader during the Gilded Age.
[10] Norrie, a broker, discovered the iron ore of the Gogebic Range of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (which became known as the Lorrie Mine[11]) in September 1882.
He was a close friend of Lispenard Stewart, with whom he threw a 100-person dinner and evening of vaudeville before the two traveled to Mexico on vacation in 1893.
[13] Another close friend, John Rhea Barton Willing (who was Vincent Astor's uncle), left Norrie a Stradivarius violin in his will.
[17] On April 23, 1893, at a grand ball Norrie's family again announced his engagement, this time to Amy Bend.
Amy, a close friend of Emily Vanderbilt Sloane, was the daughter of banker George H. Bend and was called "the New York society beauty par excellence.
[27] Together, they were the parents of: Norrie died after an attack of pneumonia at his home, 15 East 84th Street in New York City,[a] on December 22, 1910.