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Also by a deed recorded in 1907, Devot Strader sold 1008 Grant to Paul Mudrock. Mudrock Family Ownership, 1907-1910 By a deed recorded in 1907, Paul G. Mudrock purchased 1008 Grant. A Paul G. Mudrock was born in Slovakia in 1863 and lived in Colorado, and his children were born in Colorado during the period of Paul G. Mudrock's ownership of this house. However, it could not be verified that it was this Paul G. Mudrock who owned 1008 Grant. (It seems likely, however, that the Paul Mudrock who owned 1008 Grant was related to the other members of the Mudrock family of Louisville.) Kasenga Family Ownership, 1910-1919 In 1910, Joseph Kasenga (1885-1977) purchased 1008 Grant. He had arrived from Slovakia in about 1904 and in 1909 married Mary Sirokman (1891-1982), whose parents were also Slovak and who lived next door at 1016 Grant. The 1910 federal census shows Joe, Mary, and their baby son, Joe Jr., to be living in this location and next to Mary's parents and siblings. Joe and Mary also had children Elsie (1913-2006) and Margaret (1914-1996) while living at 1008 Grant, and had additional children after they moved away. Elsie Kasenga Stucka later wrote a family history that included information about her father and 1008 Grant. She wrote that her father, when he first came to Colorado, worked in the steel mills in Pueblo and that in Louisville he worked in "practically all the mines in and around Louisville, Superior and Marshall." He was involved as a striker in the 1910-1914 strike, which was during his ownership of this house. She wrote, "[f]irst, we lived in town in a house one half block from St. Louis Catholic School, 1008 Grant Street, and we all went to St. Louis Catholic School, even after we moved out on the farm. When I was six in 1919 we moved out on a ten acre farm Northeast of Louisville." About her mother, Mary Sirokman Kasenga, Elsie wrote, "She was only sixteen and a half when she married Joseph Kasenga, Sr. They had three children, Joseph, Jr., Margaret and myself during the Five Year Strike and she did a good job in rearing us." Elsie Kasenga's family history, which is contained in the Louisville Historical Museum's files, further describes her family's story after they away from 1008 Grant. In 1919, Joseph Kasenga sold 1008 Grant to Elizabeth Philp. Philp Family Ownership, 1919-1921 Elizabeth Philp (1875-1956) was a widow when she purchased 1008 Grant in 1919. Her husband, Peter, had died in 1910. The 1920 federal census shows Elizabeth to be living at 1008 Grant with her three sons: David, age 23; Peter, age 17; and Robert, age 12. 2