The first owner was a woman – Irene Mamlock Simon Schoelkopf Carman.
Why so many names? Because of so many marriages to get richer and richer.'
Born in Ohio, little is known of her early life until her marriage to Michael Simon, a clothing manufacturer. The marriage lasted until Simon’s business failed, and Irene remarried soon after her divorce was final.
Her second husband, C.P. Hugo Schoelkopf, was one of the wealthiest men in Buffalo, New York.
Her love of fine jewellery was well-known, including a reported robbery of $500,000 of her gems during a New Year’s Eve party at a Manhattan apartment that belonged to actor Frank Carman who was referred to as Mrs. Schoelkopf’s “dancing instructor.”
Irene married Mr. Carman in February 1927, a man whom one reporter described as “good looking, but poor.” Apparently Irene agreed as the couple divorced some months later.
In February 1928, the Schoelkopfs reconciled; he died days later.
One can surmise that Irene was well taken care of financially as she took delivery of her gold-plated Rolls-Royce Phantom I S390LR on December 23, 1929 and she disposed of the Rolls-Royce in April 1932.
The car’s next owner was James Cromwell, whose widowed mother Eva married a partner in the investment banking firm Drexel and Co. as well as J.P. Morgan in New York.
James therefore grew up in Philadelphia and went on to lead an extraordinary life; his first marriage to automotive tycoon Horace Dodge’s daughter Delphine of Grosse Pointe, Michigan had come to an end. Two years later, he would famously marry Doris Duke, the famed tobacco heiress and namesake of Duke University, then he was a diplomat, Ambassador of the United States to Canada, author, candidate for U.S. Senate, and brother in law to General Douglas MacArthur.
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