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listed the Oberding family that owned the property in 1904 as living in that location. In addition, the 1909 Drumm's Wall Map does show a house in the correct location, and there is no evidence that it was demolished and that a different building was later built on the site in 1927. The 1927 date may refer to the date of a remodel or addition. For all of these reasons, the construction date is assumed to be "circa 1900." Peter J. Murphy Ownership, 1880-1897 Louisville resident Peter J. Murphy (1936-1903) owned the property from 1880 to 1897. Of Scotch -Irish heritage, he was a miner in Louisville in 1880, an early year in Louisville mining history when the only mine in the area was the Welch Mine. According to the 1900 census, he was also a farmer and had a family with his wife, Mary Ann. It could not be determined from census records or other records whether whether the Murphy family lived in a house at this location during the ownership by Peter Murphy. Oberding/Raplere Family Ownership, 1897-1925 Frank Oberding (born 1867), of German heritage, purchased the property in 1897. He married Bertha Bollet, who was born in 1871, in 1894. She died in 1916. Frank Oberding is listed in Museum records as having first been a coal miner. According to Carolyn Conarroe's The Louisville Story, he was then mayor of Louisville from 1902 to 1904, during the period of his ownership of the house at 940 Main. He later became Louisville town clerk, and he was also a mine inspector. Records indicate that although the Oberding family was living in this location in the early 1900s and again later, the 1910 census shows that they were living in Boulder at the time, perhaps due to Frank Oberding's work. Frank and Bertha Oberding, had young children, Bertha (born 1895), Leo (born 1898), Lavern (born 1900), and Marie (born 1907), who would have been raised in the house. After Frank Oberding died in about 1921, his daughter Bertha and her husband Louis Raplere resided in the house. They had married in 1920. Bertha and Louis appear to have had a child, Richard, while they lived at 940 Main. Louis Raplere was born in Colorado in 1898. He served in the Navy in World War I and his name is listed on the World War I memorial in the Louisville Cemetery. The following photo from Ancestry.com shows him during his service: