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located in this building. Dr. Snair's wife, Lulu, purchased the property in 1917. Newspaper reports <br />indicate that the Snairs had already been living in the Louisville area for several years when they moved <br />into 641 Main. They were to play a large role in Louisville's life of the 1920s. Dr. Snair was not only a <br />doctor serving Louisville, but was a mine doctor for coal miners and their families and even went to <br />Marshall to deliver babies. Lulu Snair played an active role in women's organizations of Louisville and is <br />shown in the middle, rear, in the following photo of members of an unidentified Louisville women's <br />club: <br />Walter Snair (1873-1938) and Lulu Clarke Snair (1880-1929) had four children who were raised in this <br />house: Betty, Walter, Berta, and Ann. <br />The 1920 and 1930 federal census records show them to be living at this location. In 1930, the <br />household consisted of Walter and Lulu Snair, their four children, and a servant, Mary McCullough, who <br />was a widow. <br />In the 1930s, the Snairs' son, Walter, lived at 641 Main with his wife, Audrey. <br />Dr. Jack D. Bartholomew Ownership, c. 1939 —1940 <br />Although Dr. Jack Bartholomew didn't take ownership of this building until around 1939 (1939 being the <br />year that the deed was recorded), he was already living in it and working in it as a Louisville doctor at <br />the time of the 1936 Louisville directory. (He was also listed in the 1939 directory along with Dr. Walter <br />Boyd.) It appears likely that he started renting it from the Snair family (Lulu Snair having died in 1929, <br />and Dr. Walter Snair having moved away to California), or possibly the deed was signed earlier but not <br />recorded until 1939. <br />The Louisville Historical Museum has in its collection a painted wooden sign from Dr. Bartholomew's <br />office that hung by chains on the exterior of 641 Main Street. <br />Jack Bartholomew and his wife, Dorothy, lived at 641 Main and he had his medical practice there. Dr. <br />Bartholomew later had a medical practice in Boulder. <br />Dr. Walter Boyd Ownership, 1940-1943 <br />4 <br />