And, I found another detail of Frank G. Fullgraff's life I did not find in the original deep dive, his marriage record. He wed an Anna L. Simpkins on September 10, 1874. It was recorded in the New York Herald, and transcribed into this book:
https://www.google.com/books/edition...C?hl=en&gbpv=0. Frank G. was born in 1851.
An Anna Fullgraff petitioned the Parks Department in 1884 to improve some city streets (
https://www.google.com/books/edition...J?hl=en&gbpv=0).
Anna Fullgraff left or sold to Clara Simpkins 2 buildings (5 and 3 story tenement buildings) on Downing Street in 1900. Fullgraff clearly was financially successful before his very lucrative contract at Brett Lithography.
https://www.google.com/books/edition...J?hl=en&gbpv=0. Frank and Anna appear to have themselves lived on West 23rd Street.
Fullgraff was a swimmer, baseball player (Grammarcy), rifle champion, rower, billiardist and more in the sporting world. Pat found a record of him being said rifle champion, but no more was found. I found a record (
https://www.google.com/books/edition...J?hl=en&gbpv=1), from the NRA competition:
"At the autumn meting of the National Rifle Association 1876, the following remarkable score was made at 200 yards, off-hand, with a military rifle. Frank G Fullgraff 5, 5, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 -- 34 out of 35." Truly impressive marksmanship with a trapdoor.
These particular trail may never tie back into the card sets, but Fullgraff's life has often turned out to us to connect back to a card topic later and given new insight, and the board did ask for more research posts today.