Patrick J. Gerin Biography


	This biography appears on pages 662-663 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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	PATRICK J. GERIN figures as one of the pioneer citizens of the 
attractive village of Chamberlain, Brule county, where he was numbered 
among the first permanent settlers, while his enterprise and business 
sagacity led him to engage in the grocery trade here at a time when the 
town was represented by only three or four buildings, and he has ever 
since continued in this line of business here, having built up a large 
trade throughout the surrounding country and holding the unqualified 
confidence and esteem of all who know him. Mr. Gerin is a native of the 
Dominion of Canada and comes of staunch Irish lineage. He was born in 
the beautiful town of Cobourg, province of Ontario, on the 28th of 
November, 1859, and was reared and educated in his native province, 
where he continued to maintain his home until the year 1879, when he 
set forth for the west, coming to what was then the undivided territory 
of Dakota and located in Sioux Falls, where he remained two years. At 
the expiration of this period, in 1881, he came to Chamberlain, Brule 
county, arriving in May of that year and finding the site of the 
village marked by only two buildings. He purchased the lot on which his 
present business building is located and then returned to Sioux Falls, 
where he purchased the necessary material with which to construct his 
store, after the completion of which he installed a stock of groceries, 
beginning operations on a modest scale. With the growth of the town and 
the settling up of the surrounding country his enterprise expanded and 
prospered, and to meet the demands of his patrons he has kept his stock 
up to the highest possible standard, both in comprehensiveness and 
quality, while he has spared no pains in catering to the wants of his 
patrons, who in turn manifest a distinctive appreciation. In politics 
Mr. Gerin is a Republican and he is one of the valued citizens and 
business men of the county.