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Different members of the family lived in the home at 741 Lincoln over the 49 years of ownership by the Ostranders. In the early years of their ownership, Isabelle Irene Ostrander (1857-1951) lived here with her husband, Othello Ostrander (1843-1916). Othello Ostrander was originally from New York and he came west gradually, living in Wisconsin by age 7 and then Kansas. In 1910, the Denver Post asked for information to help identify who was the person who had continuously lived in Colorado the longest. (The paper evidently considered only White men, and Indigenous people were not mentioned in the series of articles on the subject.) A man who arrived in 1858 was ultimately identified as being this person, but Othello Ostrander was mentioned as being a contender, as he stated that he had arrived in Colorado on July 7, 1860, according to the Sept. 7, 1910 Denver Post. He was 17 at the time. This photo from a public family tree for the Ostranders on Ancestry.com shows Isabelle and Othello R. Ostrander sometime before 1916, the year he died. The photo was taken in front of the house at 741 Lincoln. This was determined by comparing the brickwork behind Isabelle in the historic photo (specifically, a row of short bricks visible just above her head) with the brickwork pattern shown in a more recent photo of 741 Lincoln that the owner supplied to the Historical Museum: Isabelle, whose maiden name was also Ostrander, was from Illinois. The two married in Clear Creek, Colorado in 1876. Their children were Albert H. (1877-1938), Arthur (1878-1951), Ermina (1884-1973), Estella (1886-1973), Edith (1889-1960), and Hazel (1895-1983). This photo from a public family tree on Ancestry.com shows Isabelle and Ostrander with three of their four daughters: 3