Louis Lasher Lorillard

In 1760, his great-grandfather founded P. Lorillard and Company in New York City to process tobacco, cigars, and snuff which, today, is the oldest tobacco company in the U.S. His mother's family owned "the great New York mercantile house of N. L. & G. Griswold, known to their rivals as "No Loss and Great Gain Griswold," importers of rum, sugar, and tea.

"[16] Upon his father's death in 1867, eighteen year old Louis, and his siblings, inherited a large fortune and was "regarded as one of the wealthiest young men in New York.

He later owned The Wanderer, a larger and faster yacht that was the "most up-to-date type of keel ocean-going schooner.

He had inherited Vinland, which was built in 1882 by Peabody & Stearns, from his aunt, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe.

[19][20] Together, they were the parents of four sons and a daughter:[21] In 1906 he became a member of the New York Society of the Cincinnati by right of his descent from Colonel John Lasher of the Continental Army.