Michael Gerin Biography


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GERIN, MICHAEL, was born at Donnybrook, Ireland, September 10, 1846, but removed 
to Canada when quite young.  He attended school for a short time, and when 
thirteen years of age commenced clerking in a grocery store. From that time he 
has continuously been in the grocery business.  He left Canada in June, 1878, 
and came to the United States, and on the 8th day of August, 1878, arrived in 
Sioux Falls on the first train over the Omaha. He immediately went into the 
grocery business, and built the building he now occupies on Phillips avenue 
known as the Red Front Grocery.  He has been largely interested in real estate, 
and has a farm in Palisade upon which he has a very fine and valuable herd of 
registered Shorthorns. He has built up a good business, is popular with his 
customers, and is universally respected as a citizen and neighbor. There is no 
person in Sioux Falls, mingling so much in society and business circles as 
Michael Gerin, who meddles so little with the affairs of others; he minds his 
own business, and in this respect he is without a peer in the city. Always 
genial, pleasant and happy, his list of friends is as extensive as his acquaintance.