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Resource Number: 5BL 923 Temporary Resource Number: 157508406003 In the next photo, which is from the Carnegie Branch Library for Local History in Boulder and is dated 1900, Virginia Hamilton is shown in the center front with the teaching staff and board of the Louisville school: Virginia Hamilton died in 1925 at the age of 74. According to her obituary, "Hundreds of the residents of [Louisville] and hundreds more who are scattered to the four corners of the earth were pupils of Mrs. Hamilton.... As a token of respect the schools were closed as were the business houses and the funeral was one of the largest ever held in Louisville." Virginia's son, Frank Hamilton (1877-1956), then owned and lived at 925 Jefferson with his wife, Sarah "Sade" or "Sadie" Hilton Hamilton (1877-1942). Sadie was herself a member of a pioneer Boulder County family from England. Earlier in his life, Frank was a coal miner and operated a saloon in Superior, and he later became a deputy County Clerk and a County road overseer. His obituary in the Daily Camera stated that he was "one of the community's leading citizens." Sarah's Daily Camera obituary, according to Columbia Cemetery records, stated that "she was one of the most popular residents of Louisville." At the time of the 1930 census, Sarah Hamilton's brother, Samuel Hilton, also resided with them at 925 Jefferson. Members of the extended Clemens/Hamilton family, including the parents of Virginia Clemens Hamilton who are believed to have brought the family out to Colorado, are buried in the Columbia Cemetery in Boulder. Following the death of Frank Hamilton in 1956, his granddaughter, Norma Lou Kuempel, sold the property. The additional owners since the property left the Hamilton family in 1957 have been: Everette Burd; Carl & Allegra Collister; Delbert & Leona Jones and Peggy Frank; James Goudelock & Jo Ann Feigenheimer; Richard Jackson; Philip & Louisa Prescott; and the current owner, Elizabeth Schulte, who has owned the house since 1979. Another addresses found for 925 Jefferson, under Louisville's old address system, was 424 Jefferson. 36. Sources of information: Boulder County "Real Estate Appraisal Card — Urban Master," on file at the Carnegie Branch Library for Local History in Boulder, Colorado. Boulder County Clerk & Recorder's Office and Assessor's Office public records, accessed through http://recorder.bouldercounty.org. Directories of Louisville residents and businesses on file at the Louisville Historical Museum. 5