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- He was educated in the public schools of Philadelphia and started in business with Mr. William Fiss in 1879. Mr. Doerr was instrumental in building up an immense trade in the sale of horses. He was a pioneer of selling fresh Western horses direct to the halter in New York City. The corporation founded by Mr. Doerr in 1895, the Fiss Doerr & Carroll Horse Company, was reputed to be the largest dealers in horses in the world. During World War I they shipped horses for use in France (1915-16). They were put in corrals around the Teaneck Railroad station and along Palisade Avenue.
In his obituary in the New York Tribune, his wife is named as Mary Cloud of Philadelphia, who survived with two children. (New York Tribune, 27 July 1901, Chronicling America)
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