Nathaniel Griswold Lorillard, nicknamed “Grizzy”, and party at Jerome Park race track, ca. 1886.

Nathaniel was son of tobacco baron and racehorse enthusiast, Pierre Lorillard IV.  In 1760 Nathaniel’s  great-great-grandfather founded P. Lorillard and Company in New York which today remains the oldest tobacco manufacturer in the United Sates.

Nathaniel for a time was erroneously credited with introducing the then unheard of tuxedo to the United States. He died of consumption in 1888 at the age of 24.