Old Town Park City Homes

172 Daly

Tax Photo - circa 1930s

2001

This house was built prior to 1889, probably in the late 1890s.  Its first owner and occupant was probably George O'Neil.  George was born in Coalville in 1868 to Irish immigrant parents.  He married Letti Marie Hurdsman in 1895.  They lived here with their two children, Nellie and Cora from the 1890s into until 1920.  George was finally able to purchase the lot his house sat upon when the land was sold for back-taxes by the county  in 1920.  Lucija Busija and Michael Butkovich acquired the home and probably lived here after immigrating from Croatia in 1907.  They moved to a home up the street and rented the home to Anna Saban who had recently remarried George Laktic.  Anna’s first husband, Joe Frkovich had died, most likely in the mines.  Anna's daughter, Mary, married one of Lucija’s sons, Nick Butkovich, and they lived with their sons, Joe & Nick, just down the street (two doors up from Bea’s Lodge).  When Nick died in 1942, Mary moved into this home with her parents and children.  Mary worked in the Summit County Recorders office for many years and managed a grocery store on Park Ave (where Valline Gallery is located today).  Mary eventually remarried, to Jim Yates and moved to Rossie Hill, where their daughter Cheryl was born.  Jim died when Cheryl was only two, leaving Mary a single mother once again.  Her son Nick also died at a young age but Joe lived here through grade school and high school and eventually inherited the home when he returned from service in WWII.   When Joe married, he moved to Salt Lake with his wife.  Mary continued to live in this house and died in 1988.