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While the Schaefers may have lived in the house at 725 Lincoln, specific evidence showing this could not be located. Korbel Ownership, 1922-1927 William Korbel purchased 725 Lincoln with its additional lots in 1922. He worked as a druggist in Louisville. His drug store was the Louisville Drug Co. that today is the northern half of the Double Happy Restaurant at 740 Main Street. Information on the 1920 census suggests that prior to Korbel's purchase of 725 Lincoln, the family lived at the drug store on Main Street. The following image from the Rex Theatre movie curtain, created in circa 1927, shows an advertisement for the Louisville Drug Co. with Korbel's name: Korbel was born in Nebraska in about 1883. His wife, Mary, was born in Nebraska in about 1884. Their children were Frances, born in about 1906, and William, born in about 1915. According to the 1926 Louisville directory, they were living in their Lincoln house. After Korbel sold the house in 1927, he and his family moved to Fort Collins, where he continued to work as a druggist at a drug store. Black Ownership, 1927- 1960 In 1927, Martin Black and Lizzie Thirlaway Black purchased 725 Lincoln and the extra lots to the south, which presumably were being used as yard, garden, or orchard space for 725 Lincoln. Martin Black was born in County Durham, England in 1882 and came to the US with his family at the age of about 12. The 1900 federal census shows that the Black family went to Sweetwater, Wyoming, where Martin's father was a coal miner and where Martin was working in the mines as a mule driver at the age of 17. According to his obituary, Martin Black came to Louisville in 1905. Elizabeth "Lizzie" Thirlaway was a member of one of Louisville's first families. Her parents, Thomas and Rebecca Thirlaway, came to Louisville from Trimdon, County 3