{{Short description|American soldier, author and sportsman}} {{Infobox person | name = Lawrence Kip | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1836|09|17}} | birth_place = Morristown, New Jersey, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1899|11|17|1836|09|17}} | death_place = New York City, New York, U.S. | death_cause = | resting_place = | other_names = Col. Kip | known_for = | education = United States Military Academy | occupation = | spouse = {{marriage|Eva Lorillard|1867}} | partner = | children = 3, including Edith | parents = William Ingraham Kip<br>Maria Elizabeth Lawrence | relatives = Leonard Kip (uncle) }}
'''Lawrence Kip''' (September 17, 1836 – November 17, 1899)<ref name="LKObit1899"/> was an American soldier, author, and sportsman who was prominent in New York <!-- Is this New York the city or state? -->society during the Gilded Age.
==Early life== Kip was born on September 17, 1836, in Morristown, New Jersey. He was the son of the Rt. Rev. William Ingraham Kip (1811–1893), and Maria Elizabeth (née Lawrence) Kip (1812–1893). His younger brother was William Ingraham Kip Jr., who married Elizabeth Clementine Kinney, the daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to Italy, William Burnet Kinney.<ref name="Irvine1903">{{cite book |last1=Irvine |first1=Leigh Hadley |title=A History of the New California: Its Resources and People |date=1903 |publisher=Lewis |page=[https://archive.org/details/ahistorynewcali01irvigoog/page/n622 982] |url=https://archive.org/details/ahistorynewcali01irvigoog |accessdate=June 25, 2018 |language=en}}</ref> Kip's father was a prominent minister who served at Grace Church before becoming the Episcopal Bishop of California until his death in 1893.<ref name="WIKObit1893">{{cite news |title=Obituary: Bishop William Ingraham Kip |work=The New York Times|date=8 April 1893 |accessdate=June 25, 2018 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1893/04/08/109697429.pdf }}</ref>
His paternal grandparents were Leonard Kip and Maria (née Ingraham) Kip and his uncle was author Leonard Kip.<ref name="LKObit1899"/> He was descended from Hendrick Hendricksen Kip, one of the nine original assemblymen serving in New Amsterdam from 1647 under Pieter Stuyvesant, Governor of New Netherlands.<ref name="LKObit1899"/> His ancestors were the namesake of Kips Bay in Manhattan. His maternal grandparents were merchant banker Isaac Lawrence and Cornelia (née Beach) Lawrence, herself the daughter of a minister of Trinity Church.<ref>Barrett, Walter. [http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Business/Merchant/Lawrence.html THE OLD MERCHANTS OF NEW YORK CITY - CHAPTER 6 - MERCHANT DESCRIPTIONS] 1863(Second Series)</ref>
Kip attended the Churchill Military Academy at Sing Sing,<ref name="LKObit1899"/> and was appointed Cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point in June 1853.<ref name="Kip1928"/>
==Career== Following his graduation from West Point, he was commissioned a Second lieutenant, Third Artillery in June 1857 and became part of the expedition under General Wright against the northern Indians. During this campaign, he reportedly distinguished himself in the Battle of Four Lakes and Spokane Plains and acted as Adjutant of the Artillery Battalion.<ref name="Kip1928"/> In 1859, Kip published an account of the campaign in a book entitled ''Army Life on the Pacific.''<ref name="Kip1859">{{cite book |last1=Kip |first1=Lawrence |title=Army Life on the Pacific |date=1859 |publisher=Redfield |isbn=9781429020992 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uVAJ0RXdC18C |accessdate=25 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
In 1861, at the beginning of the U.S. Civil War, he was Adjutant of the Third Artillery. Shortly thereafter, he resigned to join the staff of General Edwin Vose Sumner's as senior ''aide-de-camp'', achieving the rank of Major. He was a part of the Army of the Potomac which saw action in the Battles of Yorktown, Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Seven Pines, Savage's Station, Glendale, Malvern Hill, Antietam, Fredericksburg (all of which took place in 1862), and Mine Run which lasted from November 1863 until December 1863.<ref name="Kip1928"/>
From June 25 to July 1, 1862, during the Seven Days Battles, he was acting Adjutant General of General Sumner's Corps. Following the battles, Sumner recommended him for brevet Captain and brevet Major to the War Department for gallantry, however, the Senate failed to act on any recommendations from General George B. McClellan's campaign.<ref name="Kip1928"/>
After the death of General Sumner in March 1863, Kip went to work on the staff of General John E. Wool and was assigned to the Headquarters of the Department of the East, as Assistant Inspector General of the Artillery. Six months later, he again joined the Army of the Potomac and was assigned to the staff of Brevet Major General Robert O. Tyler, as Inspector of the Artillery Reserve, taking part in the Battle of Rappahanock Station.<ref name="Kip1928"/>
He was later appointed ''aide-de-camp'' on the staff of Major General Philip Sheridan where he fought in the Battles of Trevilian Station in 1864, where he was wounded, Cedar Creek, where he was slightly wounded again in 1864. On June 11, 1864, he was brevetted Captain "for gallant and meritorious service at the battle of Trevillian Station, Va."<ref name="Kip1928"/>
In 1865, he was part of the Battles of Dinwiddie Court House, Five Forks, High Bridge, Sailor's Creek, Appomattox Station, and Appomattox Court House, where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered.<ref name="Kip1928"/> On March 31, 1865, he was brevetted Major "for gallant and meritorious service in the Cavalry campaign from Winchester to Petersburg and at the battle of Dinwiddie Court House, Va." and on April 1, 1865, he was brevetted Lieutenant Colonel "for gallant and meritorious service at the battle of Five Forks, Va."<ref name="Kip1928"/>
Kip resigned from the Military in 1867.<ref name="LKObit1899"/>
===Society life=== In 1892, Kip and his wife Eva were included in Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred", purported to be an index of New York's best families, published in ''The New York Times''.<ref name="McAllister1892">{{cite news|last1=McAllister|first1=Ward|title=THE ONLY FOUR HUNDRED {{!}} WARD M'ALLISTER GIVES OUT THE OFFICIAL LIST. HERE ARE THE NAMES, DON'T YOU KNOW, ON THE AUTHORITY OF THEIR GREAT LEADER, YOU UNDER- STAND, AND THEREFORE GENUINE, YOU SEE.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1892/02/16/108210917.pdf|accessdate=26 March 2017|work=The New York Times|date=16 February 1892|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Patterson2000">{{cite book |last1=Patterson |first1=Jerry E. |title=The First Four Hundred: Mrs. Astor's New York in the Gilded Age |date=2000 |publisher=Random House Incorporated |isbn=9780847822089 |page=220 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZLwMAAAAYAAJ |accessdate=13 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref> Conveniently, 400 was the number of people that could fit into Mrs. Astor's ballroom.<ref name="Keister2005">{{cite book|last1=Keister|first1=Lisa A.|title=Getting Rich: America's New Rich and How They Got That Way|date=2005|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521536677|page=36|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5dAtJf1hmAUC&pg=PA36|accessdate=20 October 2017|language=en}}</ref>
Kip, who was deeply interested in horse breeding and racing, served as president of the Coney Island Jockey Club, the first turf racecourse in the United States,<ref>{{cite news |title=Troubadour; The Son of Lisbon and Glenluine Wins the Suburban |url=http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=BEagle&BaseHref=BEG/1886/06/11&PageLabelPrint=&EntityId=Ar00103&ViewMode=GIF&GZ=T |newspaper=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |date=June 11, 1886 |page=1 |accessdate=2010-04-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612032148/http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=BEagle&BaseHref=BEG%2F1886%2F06%2F11&PageLabelPrint=&EntityId=Ar00103&ViewMode=GIF&GZ=T |archive-date=June 12, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> president of the Suburban Riding and Driving Club, and vice-president of the National Show Horse Association.<ref name="VanPelt1898">{{cite book |last1=Van Pelt |first1=Daniel |title=Leslie's History of the Greater New York: Encyclopedia of New York biography and genealogy |date=1898 |publisher=Arkell Publishing Company |page=[https://archive.org/details/leslieshistoryof00vanp_0/page/54 54] |url=https://archive.org/details/leslieshistoryof00vanp_0 |accessdate=25 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref> He was also a member of the Union Club of the City of New York, the Metropolitan Club, and the Tuxedo Club.<ref name="LKObit1899"/>
==Personal life== On April 23, 1867, Kip was married to Eva Lorillard (1847–1903),<ref name="ELKObit1903">{{cite news|title=DEATH LIST OF A DAY. {{!}} Mrs. Eva Lorillard Kip|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1903/02/24/118491623.pdf|accessdate=June 25, 2018|work=The New York Times|date=24 February 1903}}</ref> the daughter of Lorillard Tobacco Company heir Pierre Lorillard III.<ref name="Kip1928">{{cite book |last1=Kip |first1=Frederic Ellsworth |title=History of the Kip family in America |date=1928 |publisher=Hudson Printing Co. |pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofkipfami00kipf_2/page/370 370]-371 |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofkipfami00kipf_2 |accessdate=25 June 2018 |language=en|author-link=Frederic Kip}}</ref>
Her grandfather, Pierre Lorillard II,<ref name="StNick1905">{{cite book|last1=Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York|title=Genealogical Record|date=1905|publisher=The Society|page=103|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gJMwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA103|accessdate=June 25, 2018|language=en|author1-link=Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York}}</ref> was a tobacco manufacturer and real estate tycoon, for whom the term "millionaire" was first used in America for his father's obituary in 1843.<ref name="Hutto2005">{{cite book|last1=Hutto|first1=Richard Jay|title=The Jekyll Island Club Members|date=2005|publisher=Indigo Custom Publishing|isbn=9780977091225|page=100|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FNPoVchaehwC&pg=PA100|accessdate=June 25, 2018|language=en}}</ref> Eva was the sister of Pierre Lorillard IV;<ref name="1901Illness">{{cite news|title=PIERRE LORILLARD, SR., IN CRITICAL CONDITION; Removed from the Deutschland to a Hotel in an Ambulance. Was Taken III in England and Was Confined to His Cabin Throughout the Voyage.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1901/07/05/archives/pierre-lorillard-sr-in-critical-condition-removed-from-the.html|accessdate=June 25, 2018|work=The New York Times|date=5 July 1901}}</ref><ref name="PLObit1901">{{cite news|title=PIERRE LORILLARD DEAD; Famous in Society, in Commerce, and in the World of Sport. First American to Win the English Derby -- Other Triumphs on the Turf in Both Hemispheres.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1901/07/08/archives/pierre-lorillard-dead-famous-in-society-in-commerce-and-in-the.html|accessdate=June 25, 2018|work=The New York Times|date=8 July 1901}}</ref> Catherine Lorillard Kernochan,<ref name="CLKObit1917">{{cite news|title=Mrs. Catherine Lorillard Kernochan|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1917/02/27/archives/obituary-1-no-title.html|accessdate=June 25, 2018|work=The New York Times|date=27 February 1917|language=en}}</ref> who married James Powell Kernochan;<ref name="JPKObit1897">{{cite news|title=JAMES P. KERNOCHAN DEAD; Well-Known Clubman Expires from the Effects of Being Knocked Down on Monday. CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT. Archibald Pell Says He Knew Tuesday that Miss Baker, the Banker's Daughter, Drove the Wagon Which Ran Against His Father-in-Law.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1897/03/06/archives/james-p-kernochan-dead-wellknown-clubman-expires-from-the-effects.html|accessdate=June 25, 2018|work=The New York Times|date=6 March 1897}}</ref><ref name="Pell2009">{{cite book|last1=Pell|first1=Eve|title=We Used to Own the Bronx: Memoirs of a Former Debutante|date=2009|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=9781438424972|page=14|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-lSta9o6UW8C&pg=PA14|accessdate=17 November 2017|language=en}}</ref> Jacob Lorillard;<ref name="JLObit1916">{{cite news|title=JACOB LORILLARD DEAD.; Founder of Tuxedo Park Dies in London, His Home for 15 Year.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1916/04/29/archives/jacob-lorillard-dead-founder-of-tuxedo-park-dies-in-london-his-home.html|accessdate=June 25, 2018|work=The New York Times|date=29 April 1916}}</ref><ref name="1861Wedding">{{cite news|title=MARRIED. {{!}} LORILLARD -- UHLHORN|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1861/06/04/news/married.html|accessdate=June 25, 2018|work=The New York Times|date=4 June 1861}}</ref> Mary Lorillard Barbey;<ref name="MLBObit1926">{{cite news|title=MRS. M. LORILLARD BARBEY; Sister of Tuxedo Park's Founder Dies in Her Paris Residence.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1926/04/11/98468184.html?pageNumber=18|accessdate=June 25, 2018|work=The New York Times|date=April 11, 1926|language=en}}</ref><ref name="HIBnyhistory">{{cite web|title=Henry Isaac Barbey (1833-1906)|url=https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibit/henry-isaac-barbey-1833-1906|website=www.nyhistory.org|publisher=New-York Historical Society|accessdate=June 25, 2018|language=en}}</ref><ref name="HIBObit1906">{{cite news|title=HENRY I. BARBEY DIES ABROAD; New Yorker's Death Occurred Near Geneva, Where He Was Educated.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1906/07/10/archives/henry-i-barbey-dies-abroad-new-yorkers-death-occurred-near-geneva.html|accessdate=June 25, 2018|work=The New York Times|date=10 July 1906}}</ref> George Lyndes Lorillard;<ref name="GLLObit1886">{{cite news|title=GEORGE LORILLARD'S DEATH.; HIS CAREER AS A YACHTSMAN AND ON THE TURF.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1886/02/05/archives/george-lorillards-death-his-career-as-a-yachtsman-and-on-the-turf.html|accessdate=June 25, 2018|work=The New York Times|date=5 February 1886}}</ref> and Louis Lasher Lorillard, who married Katherine Livingston Beeckman,<ref name="KBLObit1941">{{cite news|title=MRS. LORILLARD, 86, OF NEWPORT, DEAD; Sister of Ex-Gov. Beeckman of Rhode Island Had Suffered a Stroke Thursday|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1941/07/21/archives/mrs-lqrillard-86-of-newport-dead-sister-of-exgov-beeckman-of-rhode.html|accessdate=June 25, 2018|work=The New York Times|date=21 July 1941}}</ref> sister of Governor Robert Livingston Beeckman.<ref name="1921Illness">{{cite news|title=Mrs. Louis L. Lorillard Ill.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1921/02/26/archives/mrs-louis-l-lorillard-ill.html|accessdate=June 25, 2018|work=The New York Times|date=26 February 1921}}</ref>
Together, Eva and Lawrence were the parents of:
* Eva Maria Kip (1868–1870), who died young.<ref name="Kip1928"/> * Edith Kip ({{circa|1872}} – 1949),<ref name="Wills1949">{{cite news |title=RECENT WILLS |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/259421858/?terms=Edith%2BKip%2BCoventry |accessdate=25 June 2018 |work=The Guardian |date=June 17, 1949 |page=4 |language=en}}</ref> who married Richard Stephen McCreery (1866–1938), son of Andrew McCreery, on April 18, 1894.<ref name="1894Wedding">{{cite news |title=MARRIED IN GRACE CHURCH. Miss Edith Kip Wedded to Richard McCreery of London |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1894/04/19/104109315.pdf |accessdate=25 June 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=April 19, 1894}}</ref> they divorced in 1904, and she remarried to the Hon. Henry Thomas Coventry (1868-1934), son of George Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry, on December 3, 1907.<ref name="EKnyhistory">{{cite web |title=Edith Kip (ca. 1872-after 1945) |url=https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibit/edith-kip-ca-1872-after-1945 |website=www.nyhistory.org |publisher=New-York Historical Society |accessdate=25 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Whitaker1916">{{cite book |title=Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage ... |date=1916 |publisher=J. Whitaker & Sons |page=282 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FaEtAQAAMAAJ |accessdate=25 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref> His brother, the Hon. Charles Coventry, was also married to an American, Lily Whitehouse, the sister of diplomat Sheldon Whitehouse.<ref name="MacColl2012">{{cite book |last1=MacColl |first1=Gail |last2=Wallace |first2=Carol McD |title=To Marry an English Lord: Tales of Wealth and Marriage, Sex and Snobbery |date=2012 |publisher=Workman Publishing |isbn=9780761171980 |page=332 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rr7MRSed7h8C&pg=PA332 |accessdate=25 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref> * Lorillard Kip (1872–1896), who died unmarried of typhoid fever, aged 25.<ref name="LKObit1896">{{cite news |title=OBITUARY NOTES --Lorillard Kip |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1896/06/25/108240075.pdf |accessdate=25 June 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=June 25, 1896}}</ref>
Kip died on November 17, 1899, at his residence, 452 Fifth Avenue, in New York City after having been ill for nearly three weeks from "stomach trouble."<ref name="LKObit1899">{{cite news|title=COL. LAWRENCE KIP DEAD; His Wife and Daughter with Him at the End. CONSCIOUS UP TO THE LAST Prominent in the Social Life of New York as a Sportsman -- His Military Career.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1899/11/18/archives/col-lawrence-kip-dead-his-wife-and-daughter-with-him-at-the-end.html|accessdate=June 25, 2018|work=The New York Times|date=18 November 1899}}</ref> His funeral was held Grace Church in New York and he was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.<ref name="1899Funeral">{{cite news |title=FUNERAL OF COL. KIP. Many Clubmen and Horsemen Attend the Services at Grace Church--Burial in Greenwood |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1899/11/21/118941095.pdf |accessdate=25 June 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=November 21, 1899}}</ref> In ''The New York Times'' write up of his funeral, it stated "There were society men, old and young; horsemen of more or less prominence, and roadhouse keepers. The number of women present was not especially large."<ref name="1899Funeral"/> After his death, his widow sold their Fifth Avenue home, took a camp in the Adirondaks, and died in poor health in 1903.<ref name="ELKObit1903"/>
===Descendants=== Through his daughter Edith, he was the grandfather of four, including Lawrence B. McCreery<ref name="Almanac1908">{{cite book |title=The World Almanac and Book of Facts |date=1908 |publisher=Newspaper Enterprise Association |page=479 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Av1GAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA479 |accessdate=25 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref> and Lorillard Kip McCreery (d. 1926) from her first marriage,<ref name="1908Deed">{{cite news |title=EARL'S SON WOULDN'T SIGN.; Mrs. McCreery Coventry Sues to Set Aside $2,000,000 Provision for Her Son. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/11/12/archives/earls-son-wouldnt-sign-mrs-mccreery-coventry-sues-to-set-aside.html |accessdate=25 June 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=November 12, 1908 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="AHC1941">{{cite book |last1=American Historical Company |title=Encyclopedia of American Biography: New series |date=1941 |publisher=American Historical Society |page=10 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dZsMAQAAMAAJ |accessdate=25 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref> and Victor Henry Coventry (1909–1986), named after Henry's brother-in-law, Prince Victor Duleep Singh, and Cecil George Coventry (1911–1912), who died young, from her second marriage.<ref name="NYS1911">{{cite book |last1=New York (State) Supreme Court Appellate Division |last2=Hun |first2=Marcus Tullius |last3=Fisher |first3=Jerome B. |last4=Griffin |first4=Austin B. |title=Reports of Cases Heard and Determined in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York |date=1911 |publisher=Banks |page=68 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jHwLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA68 |accessdate=25 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
==Published works== * ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=uVAJ0RXdC18C Army Life on the Pacific; A Journal of the Expedition Against the Northern Indians, the Tribes of the Coeur dÁlenes, Spokans, and Pelouzes, in the Summer of 1858]'', Redfield, Bedford, Massachusetts, (1859).
==References== {{reflist|30em}}
==External links== * {{find a Grave|48023875}}
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