Jacob Godfrey Schmidlapp who was a prominent citizen of Cincinnati and had USPC create special decks as Christmas gifts in 1917, 1918 and 1919. He had four children that survived infancy, two sons - William Horace (1883) and Carl Jacob (1888) - and two daughters - Emma Louise (1881) and Charlotte Rose (1887). Both Daughters had died in unfortunate accidents by the time the 1917 deck as produced.
Special thanks to Toby Edwards and Matt Schacht for this information.
Furture information was recently sent to us from Statler Gilfillen of North Carolina. He owns a meerschaum pipe especially made for Mr. Schmidlapp. He has also included more information about Schmidlapp's life. Click on the link below to visit Mr. Gilfillen's website.