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Ludwig Eberharter arrived in the US around 1887 and then came to Louisville to work as a coal miner. He <br />married Martha Baier in 1895 and together, they owned numerous properties in Louisville and the <br />surrounding area. They operated the Eberharter Grocery Store at 805 LaFarge from 1903-1931. The <br />Eberharters did not further develop the property on Capitol Hill and sold Lots 1-12 to Mary Putzer <br />Gutfelder in 1922. Martha Eberharter and Marie (Mary) Gutfelder likely were friends or acquaintances. <br />Their daughters (also named Martha Eberharter (1913-1971) and Marie Gutfelder (1914-1991)) attended <br />St. Louis Catholic school together. <br />Mary Gutfelder Ownership, 1922-1982 <br />Marie (Mary) Putzer (1888-1982) grew up in <br />Czechoslovakia and came to the US in 1906 <br />arriving first in Pennsylvania. She moved to <br />Louisville by 1910 where she married Alois <br />(Louis) Gutfelder (1881-1957). Louis Gutfelder <br />was born in Colorado to Austrian parents (Alois <br />and Josepha Gutfelder). His family was living in <br />Louisville by 1900 where Louis and his father <br />worked as coal miners. According to the 1920 <br />census, Louis and Mary lived in Louisville on <br />Lincoln with six of their eventual seven children <br />and it is possible that they were renting the <br />house on Lots 1-3 from the Eberharters. They <br />are listed as living at 604 Lincoln in the 1921 City <br />Directory, which is an early address for 1101 <br />Lincoln today. After purchasing Lots 1-12 Block 5, the Gutfelder family lived at 1101 Lincoln while the <br />remaining lots were still undeveloped. <br />Mary Gutfelder (Left, back row) with WPA sewing women <br />c. 1930s. <br />Louis Gutfelder served on the town council in the 1930s and was Mayor <br />Pro Tem in 1934. In the 1940s, Mary Gutfelder sold Lots 10-12 to <br />Josephine and Vincent Martella; Lots 7-9 to Ralph and Colomba <br />D'Andrea, and Lots 5-6 to James and Viola Owens. Lots 5-6 would later <br />become the location of 1117 Lincoln. She retained Lots 1-4 and the <br />Gutfelder family continued to live at 1101 Lincoln where they raised <br />their family of seven children. Louis Gutfelder died in 1957 and Mary <br />Gutfelder died in 1982. <br />Louis Gutfelder <br />