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Harry E. Coppin Ownership, 1952-1964 <br />In 1952, Harry E. Coppin (1911-2000) purchased the East Louisville lots from Boulder County. Harry Coppin was <br />born in Illinois and came to Colorado to attend the Colorado School of Mines. He graduated in 1937 and married <br />Ida Di Donato (1915-1988) in Golden, in 1939. He pursued a career as an engineer working in mines and metals. <br />At the time that he was drafted for military service in 1942, he was working for Vanadium Corporation in <br />Montrose, CO. Vanadium is a metal used for strengthening steel. After the war, he is listed as working with the <br />Atomic Energy Commission in 1952 and in uranium research in Colorado Springs in 1953. It is unclear what <br />Coppin's connection is to Louisville, although his wife, Ida attended the University of Colorado and grew up in <br />Denver. The Coppins did not appear to live in Louisville and the purchased land remained undeveloped. <br />1962 aerial view of East Louisville and Miners Field showing no development at 824 Lee. <br />Paxton Ownership, 1964-2004 <br />Harry Coppin was living in New Mexico in 1964 when he sold Lots 1,2, & 3 to Frankie Jean and John P Paxton. <br />Frankie Jean Browning moved to Louisville with her parents, Robert Oral Browning and Emma Furlow Browning <br />in 1948. The Brownings lived at 1037 Walnut, directly across from Miner's Field and just a block away from the <br />location of 824 Lee. Frankie attended Louisville High School and briefly worked as a telephone switchboard <br />operator in Louisville in 1954. When Louisville switched to dial phone service in 1955, she continued to work for <br />Mountain States Telephone in Denver. <br />John Paxton (1941-2019) was the third generation of Paxtons in Louisville, beginning with his grandparents <br />Charles Paxton and Martina Carlson who immigrated from Sweden in 1900. Charles and Martina lived in Kansas <br />before moving to Louisville after 1910 to farm. Their son Rudolph C. Paxton (1909-2000) was born in Kansas in <br />1909 but grew up on a farm in Louisville. He married Inez Zioni (1915-1942) in 1932. The Zioni family lived at 716 <br />