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The 1910 federal census records appear to show the Swanberger family living at 725 Lincoln and they are listed as the owners of the property (and there is no indication that they owned any other property in Louisville at the time). Listed in the census records along with Fred and Lydia were their daughter, Myrle, who was 22 and a teacher; son, Walter, age 20; and son, Willard, age 9. The County Assessor card for 725 Lincoln from 1948 gives the year 1900 as the date of construction for this house. The County website also gives this year as the date of construction. However, the County is sometimes in error with respect to the dates of construction of Louisville buildings, so other evidence is looked to. The indication in the property records that this parcel wasn't sold by the developer to a purchaser until 1904 would seem to suggest that the house had not yet been built, though the possibility that the developer built the house or that the first owner built it before the deed was recorded cannot be ruled out. The recording of a document in 1904 by which Lydia Swanberger granted a deed of trust to McAllister Supply & Lumber Co. would seem to be relevant, as it could suggest that McAllister was supplying materials for a house. The 1904 directory lists Fred and Lydia "Swamberger" as living on "Lincoln btw. Pine & Spruce." The house also appears in the correct location on the 1909 Drumm's Wall Map of Louisville. For all of these reasons, the estimated year of construction is "circa 1900- 1904." In 1914, Lydia Swanberger sold the property at 725 Lincoln and the additional lots to the south to Irving Elberson, who was the managing partner and cashier for the Louisville Bank and who was one of the people who had platted the nearby Capitol Hill Addition in Louisville in 1904. Biber Ownership, 1915-1919 In 1915, Herman Biber purchased 725 Lincoln and additional lots to the south. He was born in 1875 in Switzerland and worked as a mining engineer. His wife, Carrie, was born in about 1862 in Georgia. The Louisville directories for 1916 and 1918 list Herman and Carrie Biber as living at 725 Lincoln (under one of its old addresses of 224 Lincoln; Louisville's address system changed in 1939). Herman's draft registration card for World War I stated that he worked as a mining engineer at the Matchless Mine in Louisville. The Bibers moved from Louisville to Marshall, where they were listed in the 1920 census and where Herman continued to work as a miner. Schaefer Ownership, 1919-1922 Daniel Schaefer purchased 725 Lincoln along with the additional lots to the south in 1919 and owned it until 1922. He was born in Ohio in 1885 and worked as a weighman in a coal mine. This means that he weighed the coal that was mined, with miners getting paid by the weight of the coal. His wife, Anna Birkett, was born in 1889 in County Durham, England and grew up in Louisville. Their son, Wilbur, was born in about 1908. 2