Gotthilf Doering Biography


	This biography appears on page 1902 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	GOTTHILF DOERING, of Tripp, Hutchinson county, was born in the 
southern part of Russia, and was reared and educated in his native 
land, being seventeen years of age at the time of the family emigration 
to the United States. He remained on the homestead farm until tile 
death of his father, after which he went to Edmunds county, where he 
continued to reside one year, thereafter securing a clerkship in a 
mercantile establishment at Ipswich. Soon after the founding of the 
village of Tripp, Mr. Doering came here and engaged in the general 
merchandise business until 1901, when he removed to Harvey, North 
Dakota, where he engaged in business until 1902, when he returned to 
Tripp and purchased a general merchandise business, in which he has 
since continued.