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ETC <br />GROUND PLAN w a on is H d / <br />FRONT <br />Jorges Family, Residents in Early 1930s <br />In the early 1930s, Albert and Mabel Ostrander lived in another home in Louisville and rented <br />the house at 741 Lincoln to Otto and Mary Jorges. Otto was a pharmacist who worked at a drug <br />store on Main Street a few doors south of the Ostrander Bakery. Their daughter, Margaret <br />Jorges Dupree, in 2007 sent the Historical Museum some of her memories of living in this <br />house. <br />According to Margaret, she was about 10, her brother Ed was about 7, and her brother Jim was <br />about 4 when they moved into this house. Ed began to raise rabbits and sold them. They often <br />ate delicious rabbit dinners, she remembered. She also wrote, "We children had a series of <br />dogs, all named 'Totty,' because Dad had one by that name when he was a boy." Her mother, <br />Mary, had a rock garden in the yard and was active in civic groups. After a few years, the family <br />moved away from Louisville. <br />Thomas Family; Lawrence Family, Owners 1962-1994 <br />Ralph and Matilda Thomas owned this home from 1955 to 1962, renting it to Norris and Janice <br />Olsen. In 1962, it was purchased by Leonard and Clara Lawrence, who had four children. The <br />Lawrence family owned the house for over thirty years, until 1994. <br />The Lawrence family was one of many English mining families that settled in the Louisville area <br />in its earliest years. Leonard's grandfather, Benjamin, was from Stourbridge in England, a town <br />on the edge of an area called the "Black Country" because of black smoke from mining and <br />related industries. Leonard grew up nearby on McKinley Avenue in Louisville. <br />3 <br />