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ti <br />LRFRRgE <br />TEFFERSON <br />W <br />F <br />u <br />RCHE <br />ACME MINE <br />Loutsysne Coto <br />5m CLASS <br />w 'ro <br />o S /NSLE 2%+" FIRE NYOTS, 100g <br />2:4.• R.L HOSE SHOWN THUS o <br />W.C. <br />Z' <br />DX CR?, <br />Owners /Operators: This property is believed to have been acquired by Joseph Donley and <br />James Hood. Donley and Hood sold 40 acres to the Acme Coal Mining Company in 1891. <br />The Acme Coal Mining Company was incorporated in 1889 with six directors: <br />• Lyman Andrews, who operated the business Andrews & Chambers with John S. <br />Chambers on Front Street, then operated the Louisville Mercantile company with him. <br />• John S. Chambers, who was the business partner of Lyman Andrews and was married to <br />Marybeth Chambers. <br />• Marybeth Chambers, who was married to John Chambers and who bought and sold a <br />great deal of property in Louisville. (In 1896, she sued John Chambers for divorce, but <br />her suit was denied and she did not successfully divorce him until 1910.) <br />4 <br />