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the south when the family added a house on the north side of their property, which eventually was given the address of 625 Grant. F r so i Mudrock Family Ownership, 1903-1981 John "Mudrak" was born in what is now Slovakia in about 1868. Mary Mudrak was born in Slovakia in about 1872. They married in about 1888. Their son, John George, was born in 1890, and another son, Paul, was born in 1893. Records show that the family was from Lucka, Slovakia, which is along the southern border near Hungary. For purposes of this report, John and Mary, who were the first generation of Mudrocks to live in Louisville, will be referred to by their original last name of "Mudrak" to distinguish them from later generations of the family. Their son, John George, will be referred to as "John G." to distinguish him from his father and his son, also both named John. In the 1890s, the family came to the U.S. It is believed that John, the father, arrived first in about 1891, and that he went back for his family. By 1899, the entire family was in the U.S. According to the obituary of John G., the family lived first in Pennsylvania, then moved to Rock Springs, Wyoming, then came to Louisville in 1903. The 1900 census shows the family to be living in Northside, Sweetwater, Wyoming, where John Mudrak worked as a coal miner. A third child, Michael, was born that year in Wyoming. After the family came to Louisville, two more children, Mary and George, were born. John G. Mudrock went to work in the mines at age 10, according to his wife, and worked as a coal miner for about 40 years. He retired in about 1941 from the Industrial Mine, according to the family. He also operated a gas station in Louisville and worked for an elevator company in Denver. He married Anna Kochan in Louisville in 1909. Anna Kochan was born in 1890 in New York to Slovak parents. She and her family moved among mining camps in Colorado when she was young. She and John G. met in Rockvale, Colorado, where he had been working. In 1909, John and Mary Mudrak conveyed ownership of 613 Grant to their son, John G. Mudrock. This was the same year of his marriage. (By a deed recorded in 1950, John G. then transferred ownership of 613 Grant to both himself and his wife, Anna.) A tax bill on the property for 1910 was donated to the Historical Museum by Tom Mudrock, the great- grandson of John and Mary Mudrak. It shows the assessed value of the property to be $130.00 and the property taxes to be $6.89. 2