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<br />Lot 17 was acquired by Giacomo Fiori in 1933 from Thomas Willis, who had purchased <br />it from Orrin Welch in 1905. It appears that since 1933, Lot 17 has been part of this <br />parcel. <br /> <br />Wilson Family Ownership, 1938 - 1990 <br /> <br />In 1938, Arlo Wilson acquired this property at 712 Lincoln from Maddalena Fiori. He <br />and his wife, Daisy, and their nine children made this their home. <br /> <br />Arlo was born in 1906 in Louisville to Lewis and May Wilson, who lived on La Farge <br />Avenue. The Wilson family had lived in the Louisville area since circa 1870, before the <br />town was founded. <br /> <br />Daisy, born in 1904, moved with her family to Louisville in 1920. She was the daughter <br />of Jonas and Hannah Johnson. Their farm was located just south of Hutchinson St., in the <br />vicinity of what is now Louisville Elementary. Arlo and Daisy married in 1926. <br /> <br />Arlo and Daisy raised nine children at 712 Lincoln: one boy, Ralph, and eight girls, <br />including Nadine, Margie, Enid, Janice, Dorothy, Cherahl, and Sandra. <br /> <br />Arlo was at first a coal miner and in 1940 was listed in a Louisville directory as working <br />at the Centennial Mine, but he became the town's deputy marshal, then a city policeman, <br />and ultimately chief of police for Louisville and is well remembered in this capacity by <br />many residents. He passed away in 1988. Daisy Wilson passed away in 1987. <br /> <br />The preceding research is based on a review of relevant and available online County property records, <br />census records, oral history interviews, Louisville directories, and Louisville Historical Museum maps, <br />files, and obituary records. <br /> <br />Research by Bridget Bacon, Louisville Historical Museum <br />August 2009 <br />