George Richard Schieffelin

George Richard Schieffelin (Manhattan, New York City, July 27, 1836 – Manhattan, October 24, 1910) was an American lawyer. Early life George Richard Schieffelin was the first son of Richard Lawrence Schieffelin and Margaret Helen McKay Schieffelin. Personal life George Richard Schieffelin married Julie Matilda Delaplaine (1840–1915) in 1866. Julie (French for Julia) was the granddaughter of the merchant John Ferris Delaplaine (1786–1854) and daughter of Isaac Clason Delaplaine (1817–1866). Isaac C. Delaplaine was a Democratic congressman in the House of Representatives. The Huguenot "de la Plaine" family came from Bressuire, Poitou-Charentes, southeast of Nantes in France. Nicholas de la Plaine had fled to New York in 1657.